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Metabolic syndrome
A cluster of cardiometabolic risk factors — abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, raised blood glucose, high triglycerides and low HDL — that multiplies cardiovascular risk beyond the sum of its parts.
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- ICD-10 code
- E88.81
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