V monografii osveshcheny novye i prakticheski vazhnye aspekty doklinicheskoy diagnostiki metabolicheskogo sindroma (MS) i taktiki vedeniya patsientov s MS, kotoryy, kak izvestno, vnosit sushchestvennyy vklad v razvitie sakharnogo diabeta 2 tipa i vistseral'nykh porazheniy, neredko yavlyayushchikhsya prichinoy zhizneopasnykh oslozhneniy. Predlagayutsya dlya vnedreniya v shirokuyu klinicheskuyu praktiku vpervye ustanovlennye dermatoglificheskie markery individual'noy predraspolozhennosti k metabolicheskomu sindromu (metabolicheskiy morfogenotip), kriteriy diagnostiki doklinicheskoy ego stadii u molodykh lyudey s eshchye normal'nymi znacheniyami indeksa massy tela i okruzhnosti talii (zhirovaya sostavlyayushchaya kompozitsii tela), a takzhe algoritm deystviy vrachey pervichnogo zvena, kotoryy pozvolit unifitsirovat' diagnosticheskuyu i lechebno-profilakticheskuyu rabotu i, tem samym, uluchshit' kachestvo i uvelichit' prodolzhitel'nost' zhizni etoy kategorii patsientov. Kniga mozhet byt' poleznoy dlya vrachey pervichnogo zvena (terapevtov gorodskikh i rayonnykh poliklinik, vrachey semeynoy meditsiny) i organizatorov zdravookhraneniya.