Does the Sympathetic Nervous System contribute to the pathophysiology of MetabolicSyndrome?

The metabolic syndrome (MS), formally known as syndrome X, is a clustering of several riskfactors such as obesity, hypertension, insulin resistance and dislypidemia which could lead to thedevelopment of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). The frequent changes in the definitionand diagnostic...

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Main Authors: Marina Conceição dos Santos Moreira, Izabella Silva de Jesus Pinto, Aline Andrade Mourão, James Oluwagbamigbe Fajemiroye, Eduardo eColombari, Ângela Adamski da Silva Reis, André Henrique Freiria-Oliveira, Marcos L Ferreira-Neto, Gustavo Rodrigues Pedrino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2015.00234/full