The CardioMetabolic Health Alliance Working Toward a New Care Model for the Metabolic Syndrome

Laurence S. Sperling, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Ian J Neeland, Cynthia J. Herrick, Jean Pierre Després, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Krishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, Yehuda Handelsman, Gary A. Puckrein, Maria Rosario G Araneta, Quie K. Blum, Karen K. Collins, Stephen Cook, Nikhil V. Dhurandhar, Dave L. Dixon, Brent M. Egan, Daphne P. Ferdinand, Lawrence M. Herman, Scott E. Hessen, Terry A. JacobsonRussell R. Pate, Robert E. Ratner, Eliot A. Brinton, Alan D. Forker, Laura L. Ritzenthaler, Scott M Grundy

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Abstract

The Cardiometabolic Think Tank was convened on June 20, 2014, in Washington, DC, as a "call to action" activity focused on defining new patient care models and approaches to address contemporary issues of cardiometabolic risk and disease. Individual experts representing >20 professional organizations participated in this roundtable discussion. The Think Tank consensus was that the metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a complex pathophysiological state comprised of a cluster of clinically measured and typically unmeasured risk factors, is progressive in its course, and is associated with serious and extensive comorbidity, but tends to be clinically under-recognized. The ideal patient care model for MetS must accurately identify those at risk before MetS develops and must recognize subtypes and stages of MetS to more effectively direct prevention and therapies. This new MetS care model introduces both affirmed and emerging concepts that will require consensus development, validation, and optimization in the future.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number21548
Pages (from-to)1050-1067
Number of pages18
JournalJournal of the American College of Cardiology
Volume66
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 2015

Keywords

  • cardiometabolic
  • cardiovascular disease
  • insulin resistance
  • obesity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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