METABOLIC SYNDROME AND VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY: CLINICAL AND FUNCTIONAL CORRELATION
The problem of metabolic syndrome is an urgent problem in modern medicine due to extremely wide spreading of the metabolic syndrome - from 14 to 24% in the General population. In recent years the trend to greater prevalence of metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome "younger", which is most likely due to the pandemic of vitamin D deficiency is an important metabolic and anabolic hormone. Insufficient and deficient levels of vitamin D may increase the risk of metabolic syndrome by nearly 40%. According to the results of a large-scale study of a group of scientists, this article presents the results of a study of status of vitamin D in patients with metabolic syndrome. It was found that the insufficiency and vitamin D deficiency correlates with the main pathological changes in metabolic syndrome, such as arterial hypertension, myocardial hypertrophy of the left ventricle, diabetes mellitus of the second type of stage insulinotropony, obesity.