It is intriguing to see that cellular metabolism and immune activation are so tightly entangled and that a fine-grained interplay is essential to achieve a correct function, said Karsten Hiller, Ph.D., a co-author of the current study and a professor at the Braunschweig University of Technology
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Antipsychotic medications in particular can cause metabolic syndrome (the five signs of which are excess abdominal weight, hypertriglyceridemia, low HDL cholesterol, elevated blood sugar, and high blood pressure), which increases a persons risk for cardiac disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes
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If you are metabolically healthy with no cardiovascular risk factors, you have more flexibility in choosing between the two classes