have greatly increased. The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of alterations, which include
obesity, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, glucose intolerance and insulin resistance, that
increase the risk of developing, among others, atrial and nodal arrhythmias. The aim of this
study is to demonstrate that metabolic syndrome induces electrical remodeling of the sinus
node and produces arrhythmias. We induced metabolic syndrome in 2-month-old male …