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ENI - Diabetes Mellitus and Insulin resistance Flashcards

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What is diabetes mellitus?

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Insufficiency or inability of insulin/insulin’s functionality

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What are the effects of relative/absolute insulin deficiency?

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  • Decreased tissue utilisation of glucose
  • Increased tissue utilisation of amino acids and fatty acids
  • Increased hepatic glycogenolysis and hepatic gluconeogenesis
  • Leading to hyperglycaemia
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What are the different types of diabetes mellitus?

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  • Type I

- Type II

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Describe type I diabetes

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  • Beta-cell destruction, usually leading to absolute insuline deficiency
  • Immune mediated (including LADA)
  • Idiopathic
  • Inflammation of pancreas leading to damage of islets
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Describe type II diabetes

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  • May range from predominantly insulin resistance with relative insulin deficiency
  • To predominantly secretory defect with or without insulin resistance
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What may be some other causes of diabetes mellitus?

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  • Disease of exocrine pancreas - inflammation of pancreas in general may lead to damage of islets showing as type ! diabetes
  • Endocrinopathies e.g. Cushing’s, acromegaly, phaechromocytoma, glucagonoma, hyperthyroidism, produciogn of excess insulin antagonistic (more similar to type 2)
  • Genetic defects, drugs, chemical induced, infections
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What is the effect of glucose on islet cells?

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Toxic

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Defined by insulin, what are the 2 types of diabetes?

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  • Insulin dependent

- Non-insulin dependent

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Explain how insulin resistance can lead to insulin deficiency

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  • Insulin resistance, so get glucose increase
  • Glucose toxic to islet cells
  • Destruction, and so further reduction in insulin production
  • Escalates until no insulin production
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Describe insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

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  • Insulin deficiency
  • i.e. the primary problem is lack of insulin
  • Need to treat with insulin or will die
  • Common in dogs
  • In cats may be able to treat by changing diet to low carb to bring glucose back to manageable level
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Describe non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

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  • Cats: common, obesity induced insulin resistance

- Dogs: insulin antagonism , drugs such as glucocorticoids, progestogens, condition such as dioestrus

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Give examples of causes of diabetes mellitus in dogs

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  • Genetic suscpetibility
  • Immune mediated destruction of beta cells
  • Pancreatitis
  • Obesity induced insulin resistance
  • Insulin antagonistic disease/conditions
  • Insulin-antagonistic drugs
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Describe the immune mediated destruction of Beta cells leading to diabetes mellitus

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  • T cells
  • Autoantibodies against insulin and/or beta cells
  • Progressive decrease in glucose stimulated insulin secretion
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Describe pancreatitis as a cause of diabetes mellitus

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  • Beta-cell destruction
  • Spontaneous inflammation of pancreas with associated residual damage to islets and beta cells
  • Insulin deficiency
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Give examples of insulin antagonistic diseases/conditions

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  • Hyperadrenocorticism (cortisol)
  • Dioestrus
  • Acromegaly (growth hormone)
  • Phaechromocytoma (catecholamines0
  • Glucagonoma (glucagon)
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Explain how dioestrus is an insulin antagonistic condition in the bitch

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  • High progesterone
  • Stimulates systemic increase in growth hormone and growth factor
  • Inhibit insulin
  • Usually ok when enoguh can be produced to overcome this but in some circumstances may not be able to
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Give an example of insulin antagonistic drugs

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Glucocorticoids

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Give common causes of diabetes mellitus in cats

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  • Obesity induced insulin resistance
  • Islet amyloidosis
  • Pancreatitis
  • Insulin antagonistic drugs
  • Insulin antagonistic disease
  • Genetics
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How may insulin resistance occur?

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  • Diminished ability of cells to respond to action of insulin in transporting glucose from blood to tissues
  • Insulin resistance may be due to inadequate number of receptors
  • Defective receptor structure
  • Cell signalling pathway defect
  • Defective GLUT4 transport or translocation to membrane
  • Interference with function of GLUT4
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Explain islet amyloidosis in cats

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  • Amylin
  • Co-secreted with insulin by feline beta cells
  • Chronic increased secretion (high carb diet) with obesity and insulin resistant states
  • Consequence of chronic hyperglycaemia/glucose toxicity
  • Amylin deposited in iselts as amyloid
  • Amyloid fibrils are cytotoxic, cause apoptosis of islet cells, leading to defective insulin secretion
  • Progressive can lead to diabetes mellitus
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Explain why polyuria occurs in diabetes mellitus

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  • Blood glucose over amount that can be absorbed
  • Glucose in tubules, draws out water
  • Osmotic diuresis
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Why does polydipsia occur in diabetes mellitus?

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Compensatory to the polyuria

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Explain why polyphagia occurs in diabetes mellitus

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  • Insulin required to signal satiety to hypothalamus

- No signalling to hypothalamus leads to increased appetite

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Explain why weight loss occurs in diabetes mellitus

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  • No inhibition of catabolic processes
  • Use up sotres
  • Decreased peripheral tissue utilisation of glucose
  • Insulin:glucagon ratiofalls, promoting starvation process
  • AAs used for gluconeogenesis
  • Increased protein breakdown leading to muscle wasting
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Explain why cataracts occur in diabetes mellitus

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  • Glucose uptake into lens
  • Normally metabolised to lactate which diffuses out using hexokinase
  • Excess glucose converted into fructose and sorbitol that do not diffuse out (catalysed by aldose reductase)
  • trapped fructose and sorbitol draw water into lens
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Explain diabetic ketoacidosis

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  • Glucose does not enter cells easily
  • Shift to fat metabolism for energy
  • Mobilise fatty acids
  • More fatty acids leads to ktones
  • Ketones gbuild up leading to metabolic acidosis
  • Animals appear ill: vomiting, diarrhoea, anorexia, dehydration, often present collapsed
27
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List the diagnostic tests for diabetes mellitus

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  • Blood glucose
  • Urinalysis
  • Fructosamine
  • Blood biochemistry
28
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Describe blood glucose in the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

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  • Persistent fasting hyperglycaemia
  • Blood glucose usually >10mmol/L
  • Often 14-16mmol/L
  • Persistent glucosuria
29
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Explain feline stress induced hyperglycaemia

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  • Stress induces cortisol and catecholamine release
  • This leads to hyperglycaemia
  • Ensure sample is stress free (i.e. taken at home) to show a representative glucose result
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Describe the fructosamine test in the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus

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  • Glycosylated serum proteins (albumin)
  • Non-enzymatic reaction, proportional to blood glucose concentration
  • Reflects previous 2-3 weeks of blood glucose
  • High glucose for long period leads to more fructossamine
  • Over 400umol/L
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What will be seen on blood biochemistry in diabetes mellitus? Why?

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  • Hypercholesterolaemia and hypertriglyceridaemia due to fatty acid mobilisation
  • Visible lipid in serum/plasma
  • Increased liver enzymes due to hepatic lipidosis
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What will be seen on urinalysis in diabetes mellitus?

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  • USG >1.025 g/ml (increased due to glucose)
  • Glucose
  • +/- ketones
  • UTI (white and red blood cells, bacteria, protein)
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Explain how ketones are produced

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  • Ketones are produced from excess fatty acids
  • During starvation state
  • Fatty acids into TCA by using oxaloacetate
  • Oxaloacetate comes from glucose
  • Where there is not enough glucose and too many FFAs, they are diverted into ketone production
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What are the ketones produced in starvation state called?

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  • Acetoacetic acid
  • Acetone
  • beta-hydroxybutyric acid
35
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Why are ruminans particularly susceptible to ketosis?

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Bacteria within rumen consume all glucose from feed, so ruminants have o generate their own glucose from VFAs

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Why would obesity make make ketosis worse?

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  • Likely to have insulin resistance and so less likely to be able to use glucose that is present/being produced
  • Greater source of fatty acids as more can be mobilised from adipose
  • Insulin’s inhibition of HSL lost and so will be more active in TAG mobilisation
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How does diabetes mellitus affect lipid mobilisation from adipose stores?

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  • Increases mobilisation because HSL is not being inhibited by insulin
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How does diabetes mellitus affect oxaloacetate production?

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  • Gluconeogenesis overstimulated
  • Converted back to glucose via gluoneogenesis in DM patient
  • Decreased oxaloacetate so more ketones produced
39
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Define insulin resistance

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A reduced sensitivity to insulin

40
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Give examples of physiological causes of insulin resistance

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  • Pregnancy

- Stress (cortisol is inhibitory to insulin)

41
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Give examples of pathological causes of insulin resistance

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  • Obesity
  • Hereditary predisposition
  • Concurrent diseases
  • Endocrinopathies
42
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Give molecular cuases of insulin resistance

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  • Inadequate number of insulin receptors
  • Defective insulin receptor structure
  • Defective cell signalling pathway
  • Defective GLUT4 transport proteins
  • Problems with translocation of GLUT4 to membrane
  • Interference with function of GLUT4
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What is the effect of insulin resistance on glucose metabolism?

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  • Impaired uptake into tissues
  • Increased gluconeogenesis (insulin usually suppresses this)
  • Circulating glucose increase
  • Tendency towards hyperglycaemia
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What is the effect of insulin resistance on lipids?

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  • Increased lipolysis due to reduced suppression of HSL
  • Higher blood FFA levels
  • Increases disproportionately when triggered by negative energy balance
  • repartitioning:fats stored in adipose tissue, some fat storage in skeletal muscles, increase in blood fatty acid levels shift more lipid into skeletal muscle
  • Lipid can interfere with insulin signalling
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What is the effect of insulin resistance on proteins?

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  • AAs used for gluconeogenesis
  • Inhibition of AA uptake by tissues (anabolic effects suppressed)
  • Hepatic insulin resistance also adds to increased gluconeogenesis, more AAs used up
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What is heptaic insulin resistance?

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When insulin fails to suppress gluconeogenesis within the liver

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Describe the glucose tolerance test

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  • Dynamic test to stress system and reveal inadequacies
  • IV injection of dextorse and serial blood samples
  • Assess ability to reduce blood glucose and the amount of insulin needed for this
  • Normal: insulin increased, glucose decreased
  • Compensated IR: very high insulin, controlled glucose
  • Uncompensated IR: very high insulin, very high glucose (or no increased insulin due to secondary insulin deficiency due to glucose toxicity)
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Describe measurements of obesity

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  • Body condition scoring
  • Ultrasound measurement of subcut fat (esp pigs before slaughter, rump fat)
  • Bioelectrical impedance
  • Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA, similar to CT or MRI, rare)
  • Objective definition of degree of “crestiness” in horses
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Describe compensated insulin resistance

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  • Initially make more insulin to make up for resistance
  • Obesity associated
  • Normal concentrations unable to remove glucose from blood, pancreas secretes more insulin, leads to hyperinsulinaemia
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Describe uncompensated insulin resistance

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  • Pancreas unable to keep up due to glucose toxicity
  • Obesity associated
  • beta-cell exhaustion
  • High blood glucose and low insulin
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What is the result of uncompensated insulin resistance?

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  • Type 2 diabetes melltius, non-insulin dependent (as the primary cause is obesity and not insulin)
  • Glucosuria (and thus PUPD)
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What is the effect of increased body fat mass?

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  • Expansion of adipocytes (hypertrophy)
  • Increased number of adipocytes (hyperplasia)
  • Accumulation in subcut adopose tissue, omental, visceral, abdoinal adipose
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Describe the anabolic/catabolic imbalance in obesity

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  • Faster input into storage (anabolism) than output
  • More fatty acids from diet, and fat produced from carbohydrates
  • Slower output from storage pool due to lower demand, differences in metabolic activity between individuals i.e. good doers/easy keepers
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Outline what is meant by de novo lipogenesis

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  • Carbohydrates turned into fat

- Herbivores synthesise fat from carbohydrates has have low fat diet

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What is the link between obesity and insulin resistance?

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  • Obese animals more likely to suffer from IR
  • Not always the case, but common
  • 3 theories to explain this association: lipotoxicity, pro-inflammatory theory and adipokine theory (last 2 very closely linked)
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Describe te lipotoxicity theory iin obesity and insulin resistance

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  • Failure to store in subcut adipose leads to ectopic lipid in visceral fat and insulin sensitive tissues e.g. liver and skeletal muscle
  • Tissues develop state of lipotoxicity
  • Insulin signalling and action altered, deterioration of glucose tolerance in whole body
  • Cytoplasmic and intercellular functions impaired
  • As lipid accumulates within myocytes, insulin signalling pathways disrupted
  • Disrupted signalling transduction leads to insulin resistance
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How does insulin resistance perpetuate itself through lipotoxicity?

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  • Insulin resistance promotes lipolysis (no inhibition of HSL)
  • Increases mobilisation of fatty acids into circulation adn tehn to muscle and liver via portal system
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Outline the proinflammatory theory of insulin resistance and obesity

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  • Adipose tissue reaches capacity for fat storage
  • Stressed adipocytes release inflammatory cytokines (adipokines), create proinflammatory state
  • Alter intracellular signal transduction pathway, leading to IR
  • Stretching adipocyte releasing leptin and inflammatory factors, decreased release of adiponectin
  • Combined will promote insulin resistance and inflammation
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Outline the adipokine theory

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  • Adipocytes produce cytokines that can be classed as hormones (adipokines)
  • Obesity alters balance of adipokines produced by adipocytes
  • For example, adiponectin production decreases as obesity develops
  • Adiponectin enhances action of insulin
  • Lower adiponectin levels contribute to IR
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Outline Equine Metabolic Syndrome

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  • Peviousy known as peripheral Cushing’s
  • Strong link with obesity/regional adiposity
  • Primary disorder in EMS is insulin resistance
  • Most common clinical sign is laminitis
  • High levels of insulin and glucose in ponies with EMS

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