“…Furthermore, equal weight toward the diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome is given to each criterion. After a couple of decades, Reaven himself questioned the clinical utility of metabolic syndrome as a diagnostic category (2), and some suggested that the time of metabolic syndrome as a condition has already passed (3). Nevertheless, much research on the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome is being published: up to January 23, 2017, 24,173 abstracts could be found on PubMed, when searching for the MeSH term "metabolic syndrome X".…”