Metabolic syndrome without overt diabetes is associated with prolonged pro-arrhythmogenic electrocardiographic parameters

Abstract

It is shown in many studies that both metabolic syndrome (MS) and the risk factors related to MS [such as diabetes mellitus (DM)] were independently associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD) (1). Moreover, in a study, a follow-up of asymptomatic MS patients for 21 years showed that SCD was more frequently encountered than non-SCD (1).