Defining Metabolic Syndrome: Which Kind of Causality, if any, is Required?

Volume: 9, Issue: 47, Pages: 553 - 580
Published: Dec 1, 2017
Abstract
The definition of metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been, and still is, extremely controversial. My purpose is not to give a solution to the associated debate but to argue that the controversy is at least partially due to the different ‘causal content’ of the various definitions: their theoretical validity and practical utility can be evaluated by reconstructing or making explicit the underlying causal structure. I will therefore propose to...
Paper Details
Title
Defining Metabolic Syndrome: Which Kind of Causality, if any, is Required?
Published Date
Dec 1, 2017
Journal
Volume
9
Issue
47
Pages
553 - 580
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