A horse doesn’t have to be obviously obese to be at a high risk of laminitis, however. Those who have equine metabolic syndrome or insulin resistance are already at increased risk of laminitis because ...

Metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) is a group of metabolic conditions that occur together and promote the development of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These include abdominal obesity ...

If you have a good doer now’s the time to put damage limitation measures in place to stop the year-on-year weight gain that can ultimately lead to equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) and laminitis.

The incidence of the metabolic syndrome, the most threatening epidemic in industrialized countries, is rapidly rising. Nonetheless, the mechanisms causing visceral obesity and its associated ...