The Endocrine Society
Natural hormone offers hope for treatment of the metabolic syndrome
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, June 22nd, 2009
"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 of developing heart disease, stroke and...
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