Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome are two disorders that individuals can experience simultaneously due to the risk factors for both diseases being so similar. One disease does not cause the other, but factors that cause one disease can cause both disease. For example, risk factors for both diseases are having a family history of Type 2 diabetes mellitus. If a sibling or parent has diabetes, then odds are increased that the individual will develop diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

The diseases are also similar in that they both occur as a result from impairment in a chemical process. While metabolism regulates all chemical processes in the body including absorption, conversion, and production of energy from molecules and nutrients, insulin helps transfer the energy into the cells for utilization. When either of these processes is defunct, effects on blood glucose and energy levels can detrimental, leading to metabolic syndrome and diabetes.

Diabetes is …