Only a small proportion of women have used folic acid before their pregnancies. A public health policy or strategy to increase the preconceptional use of folic acid is needed in Taiwan.

Soygerm extracts may improve serum lipid profile in postmenopausal Taiwanese women who receive HT, and probably provide a favorable effect on estrogen metabolism.

The therapeutic lifestyle program with diet control and regular exercise improves most markers of MetS except for levels of high density lipoprotein cholesterol. Therapeutic lifestyle intervention may be the best way of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease in women with MetS.

The correlation between CRP and insulin resistance or abnormal lipid levels is attributed to their strong correlations with obesity.