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Syndrome X is a term used a describe a set of cardiovascular risk factors that includes glucose or insulin disturbances, high blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels, elevated blood pressure, and upper-body obesity. Other terms to describe this syndrome are the metabolic cardiovascular risk syndrome (MCVS), Raven’s syndrome, insulin resistance syndrome, and atherothrombogenic syndrome. While there [...]

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Investigations indicate that insulin stimulates protein synthesis by increasing transport of amino acids into cells and at the same time stimulating nucleic acids, particularly RNA and the messenger RNA, which is especially involved in protein synthesis. Insulin has been shown to stimulate RNA synthesis in many cases. Thus it appears that insulin primarily promotes protein [...]

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