What does ATP stand for?

According to the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III report, there are seven factors that contribute to metabolic syndrome.

CHICAGO -- Psychiatrists need to understand that the operational details of monitoring cardiometabolic status in patients on antipsychotics--a task they are now expected to perform--are already spelled out in national guidelines, including the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III and the American Diabetes Association/American Psychiatric Association consensus guidelines.

Acknowledging the limitations of traditional risk factors to precisely assess cardiovascular risk across the general population, the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel, or NCEP ATP III, report recognized the potential of inflammatory markers to help refine cardiovascular risk assessment.

Approximately 260 healthy male and female adults who met the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines for optimal plasma lipid and lipoprotein concentrations were recruited to establish reference distributions for the lipoprotein fractions detected by the method.

Evaluation of adult treatment panel III criteria in identifying insulin resistance with dyslipidemia.

4) LDL size seems also to be an important predictor of cardiovascular events and progression of coronary artery disease, and the predominance of small, dense LDL has been accepted as an emerging cardiovascular risk factor by the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III.

National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel and the report of the Working Group on Hypercholesterolemia in Canada, have attempted to harmonize cardiovascular risk assessment across North America.

Researchers looked at nearly 3,000 postmenopausal women with CHD to see how many met the guidelines recommended by the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel for LDL.