[Gender-specific characteristics of metabolic syndrome in the elderly].

The review deals with one of the actual problems in medicine, metabolic syndrome (MS) in the elderly. Special attention is paid to the greater frequency of MS in the population. Modern data on the pathogenesis of the major components of MS, provoking the development of cardiovascular disease and diabetes type 2 are set out. The authors indicate that occurring with age hormonal changes create the conditions for the development of visceral obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia, subclinical inflammation, i.e. those pathological changes, which form the basis of MS. Measures for prevention of cardiovascular complications associated with changing lifestyles of older people with MS are reflected.