UPMC Horizon opens Center for Metabolic Medicine in the Shenango Valley

Farrell, PA — UPMC Horizon now offers a more comprehensive approach to treating patients with metabolic syndrome and related disorders including diabetes, hypertension, and obesity with the recent opening of the hospital’s new Center for Metabolic Medicine.

Metabolic syndrome is a collection of risk factors that make a patient more susceptible to heart disease, stroke, chronic kidney disease, and type 2 diabetes. Some of these risk factors include hypertension (high blood pressure), obesity, high blood lipid levels, and insulin resistance (high blood sugar).

Treatment of metabolic syndrome includes lifestyle modification, particularly weight reduction. Medication may also be used to treat metabolic syndrome.
UPMC Horizon’s Regional Diabetes Center, currently located inside the Shenango Valley facility, and UPMC Horizon’s outpatient nutrition program will relocate to the Center for Metabolic Medicine at the end of the month.

The Center for Metabolic Medicine is located at the Park Medical Building, 2120 Likens Lane, Farrell, adjacent to UPMC Horizon’s Shenango Valley campus. To schedule an appointment at the center, call 724-983-8878.

Contact: Erin Palko, public relations manager, 724-589-8107