{"id":108259,"date":"2016-01-12T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=108259"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:12:39","slug":"nutritional-scientists-seek-participants-for-study-of-supplement-in-the-treatment-of-metabolic-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/01\/nutritional-scientists-seek-participants-for-study-of-supplement-in-the-treatment-of-metabolic-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutritional scientists seek participants for study of supplement in the treatment of metabolic syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, <a href=\"http:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=2432157&amp;resultClick=3\">34.7% of the US adult population had metabolic syndrome in 2011-2012<\/a>, and these numbers are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>Metabolic syndrome is a collection of conditions that increases the risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes, and it is diagnosed when testing shows any three or more of the five following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elevated blood pressure (greater than or equal to 130\/85 mm Hg or use of blood pressure lowering medications).<\/li>\n<li>Elevated fasting blood sugar (greater than or equal to 100 mg\/dl).<\/li>\n<li>Elevated fasting triglyceride level (\u2265150 mg\/dl or above).<\/li>\n<li>Low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (less than 40 mg\/d for men and less than 50 mg\/dl for women).<\/li>\n<li>Waist circumference greater than 102 cm in men or greater than 88 cm in women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturally.uconn.edu\/2016\/01\/12\/nutritional-scientists-seek-participants-for-study-of-supplement-in-the-treatment-of-metabolic-syndrome\/\">Read the full article at Naturally@UConn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, 34.7% of the US adult population had metabolic syndrome in 2011-2012, and these numbers are on the rise. Metabolic syndrome is a collection of conditions that increases the risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes, and it is diagnosed when testing shows any three or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":108260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2224],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1871],"class_list":["post-108259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cahnr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 12:28:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/108260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108259"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=108259"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=108259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}