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"The Texas Tech Medcast is a podcast for medical residents, medical students, practicing physicians, and others involved in medical education and high quality, patient-centered primary care."  "This episode defines the Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) and discusses helping the patient to make therapeutic lifestyle changes, including improved nutritional choices and exercise.

Learning Objectives: the physician audience should be able to:  Define and diagnose the Metabolic Syndrome and identify its risk factors; Help patients apply Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) to the management of MetS and use laboratory values to help reinforce TLC; Provide patients with tools for self-care and self-monitoring for MetS; and Perform simple dietary assessments

Podcast Pearl: Diagnosis guide and lab values for the diagnosis of MetS (Dr. Kathy Chauncey)

There is a Fact Sheet available at: http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/fammed/ttmedcast/PodcastEpisodeFS_DMMetSyndrome.pdf

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