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Hypothalamic Origin of the Metabolic Syndrome X

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1999
ABSTRACT:The conspicuous similarities between Cushing's syndrome and the Metabolic Syndrome X open up the possibility that hypercortisolemia is involved also in the latter. Salivary cortisol is possible to measure during undisturbed conditions including perceived stressful events during everyday life.
P, Björntorp, R, Rosmond
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Retinoid X Receptor Heterodimers in the Metabolic Syndrome

New England Journal of Medicine, 2005
To the Editor: The excellent review of nuclear receptors by Shulman and Mangelsdorf (Aug. 11 issue)1 mentioned that the study of patients with mutations in PPARγ, the gene encoding peroxisome-proliferator–activated receptor γ (PPARγ), which is rare, can yield corroborating and new insights into the metabolic syndrome.
Andrew I, Shulman, David J, Mangelsdorf
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Steroid metabolism in Metabolic Syndrome X

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2001
Preceding chapters in this volume describe relatively rare conditions associated with qualitative rather than quantitative changes in enzymes involved in steroid synthesis and metabolism. In this chapter, several examples show how more subtle variations in activities of the same enzymes may be important in the pathophysiology of common diseases of ...
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Cardiac syndrome X versus metabolic syndrome X

International Journal of Cardiology, 2007
In 1973, Kemp [1], in an editorial, introduced the term ‘syndrome X’ to indicate the uncertain etiology of chest pain in patients who had a positive exercise ECG suggestive of myocardial ischemia but on coronary arteriograms had normal coronary arteries.
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