Metabolic Syndrome and Complications of Pregnancy

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Title

Metabolic Syndrome
and Complications
of Pregnancy

Description

The concept of metabolic syndrome was articulated by Gerald Reaven in 1988 at
the Banting Lecture of the American Diabetes Association annual meeting. Reaven

proposed that insulin resistance led to hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, hyperlip-
idemia, central obesity, and hypertension