Monday, November 12, 2007

Sex, Sugar And Metabolic Disease (Science Daily)

Overweight children and adults have low blood levels of the protein SHGB, which transports sex steroids and regulates their tissue entry. Low levels of SHGB are a marker of the metabolic syndrome, a medical disorder that increases an individual's risk of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease. New research in mice and in vitro using human cells provides an explanation as to why low SHGB ...

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[Source: Yahoo! News Search Results for heart disease]