Table 5

Courtesy [8,9] The myriad names of the metabolic syndrome

I.

The insulin resistance syndrome

II.

Syndrome X

III.

Reaven syndrome

IV.

Metabolic syndrome (preferred term by WHO)

V.

Metabolic syndrome X

VI.

Multiple metabolic syndrome

VII.

Plurimetabolic syndrome

VIII.

Dysmetabolic syndrome

IX.

Cardiovascular dysmetabolic syndrome

X.

Cardiometabolic syndrome

XI.

The "H" phenomenon

XII.

The "Deadly quartet"

Hayden and Tyagi Cardiovascular Diabetology 2002 1:3   doi:10.1186/1475-2840-1-3