A cluster of metabolic factors have been merged into an entity named the metabolic
syndrome. Although the characteristics of this syndrome have varied over time the presently …

Abstract The “metabolic syndrome”(MetS) is a clustering of components that reflect
overnutrition, sedentary lifestyles, and resultant excess adiposity. The MetS includes the …

Cellular imbalances of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism result in pathological
processes, including atherosclerosis and metabolic syndrome. Recent work from our group …

Randomised controlled trials have shown that exercise training has a mild or moderate
favourable effect on many metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors that constitute or are …

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Context: Although exposure to supraphysiological levels of glucocorticoids is known to
contribute to the development of the metabolic syndrome (MetS), the importance of …

Background—Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified several susceptibility
loci for metabolic syndrome (MetS) component traits, but have had variable success in …

Chronic pain and obesity, and their associated impairments, are major health concerns. We
estimated the association of overweight and obesity with 5 distinct pain conditions and 3 …

The worldwide epidemic of childhood obesity in the last decades is responsible for the
occurrence in pediatrics of disorders once mainly found in adults, such as the metabolic …

Obesity is a metabolic disease of pandemic proportions largely arising from positive energy
balance, a consequence of sedentary lifestyle, conditioned by environmental and genetic …