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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-08-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Physiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2015.00234/full |