Ghrelin in Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome
Open Access
- 27 April 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in International Journal of Peptides
- Vol. 2010, 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/248948
Abstract
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of related risk factors for cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and liver disease. Obesity, which has become a global public health problem, is one of the major risk factors for development of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Obesity is a complex disease, caused by the interplay between environmental and genetic factors. Ghrelin is one of the circulating peptides, which stimulates appetite and regulates energy balance, and thus is one of the candidate genes for obesity and T2DM. During the last years both basic research and genetic association studies have revealed association between the ghrelin gene and obesity, metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetesKeywords
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