Hope For Treatment Of The Metabolic Syndrome Offered By Natural Hormone

Angiotensin 1-7, a hormone in the body that has cardiovascular benefits, improves the metabolic syndrome in rats, according to a new study. The results were presented 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.

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Filed under: Endocrinology on June 21st, 2009