Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors. Some medicines can be used to treat metabolic syndrome if other methods to treat it don’t work.
Blood pressure may be treated with:
Blood glucose may be treated with:
Triglycerides may be treated with:
Obesity may be treated with:
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Last reviewed May 2018 by EBSCO Medical Review Board Marcin Chwistek, MD