Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS), Cushing's disease, insulin resistance (IR), glucose intolerance, and glycemic indices of feeds have gotten a lot of press lately. The terms are taken from the human literature, where they have very specific connotations with regard to the clinical entities they denote. In human medicine:
Metabolic syndrome is characterized by increased
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