Metabolic syndrome is a very dangerous situation. It is a cluster of conditions such as high blood pressure and high blood levels of glucose. Because of that disorder heap, metabolic syndrome raises the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

The likelihood that adolescents will develop metabolic syndrome rises in cases of exposure to tobacco smoke, either through active or passive smoke. This association is even stronger among teens who are overweight or at risk of being overweight.

According to statistics, the metabolic syndrome primarily strikes those teens who are overweight or at-risk for overweight, a group that has tripled during the last two decades. This makes a growing segment of the youth population uniquely vulnerable to the development of this syndrome and to subsequent premature cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes.

This is consensual with the general opinion that tobacco and obesity are the two leading causes of preventable death in the United States. More then that, the metabolic syndrome often develops in childhood and is associated with insulin resistance, a metabolic disorder in which the body can