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Dietary reversal of neuropathy in a murine model of prediabetes and metabolic syndrome.
Disease models & mechanisms - 1 Jun 2017
Hinder Lucy M, O'Brien Phillipe D, Hayes John M, Backus Carey, Solway Andrew P, Sims-Robinson Catrina, Feldman Eva L
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Patients with metabolic syndrome, which is defined as obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), can develop the same macro- and microvascular complications as patients with type 2 diabetes, including peripheral neuropathy. In type 2 diabetes, glycemic control has little effect on the development and progression of peripheral neuropathy, suggesting that other metabolic syndrome...
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