The Vascular Consequences of Metabolic Syndrome: Rodent Models, Endothelial Dysfunction, and Current Therapies

• Main Authors: Vivian Tran (Author), T. Michael De Silva (Author), Christopher G. Sobey (Author), Kyungjoon Lim (Author), Grant R. Drummond (Author), Antony Vinh (Author), Maria Jelinic (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Metabolic syndrome is characterized by visceral obesity, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia and hypertension, and affects over one billion people. Independently, the components of metabolic syndrome each have the potential to affect the endothelium to cause vascular dysfunction and disrupt vascular homeost...