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Natural hormone offers hope for treatment of the metabolic syndrome
2009 JUN 22 -- Angiotensin 1-7, a hormone in the body that has cardiovascular benefits, improves the metabolicsyndrome in rats, according to a new study. The results will be presented Wednesday at The Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
"No specific form of medical therapy for the metabolic syndrome presently exists," said the study's lead author, Yonit Marcus, MD, a PhD student at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. "But an estimated 20 to 25 percent of the world's adult population has the metabolic syndrome."
The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors that raise the risk...
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