Scientists link fat hormone to death from potentially deadly blood infection

Friday, October 23, 2009 - 15:07 in Health & Medicine

A new Canadian study has found that lower-than-normal levels of a naturally-occurring fat hormone may increase the risk of death from sepsis -an overwhelming infection of the blood which claims thousands of lives each year.

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