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Metabolic Syndrome, with Its Cluster of Risk Factors, Raises the Risk

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Metabolic syndrome, with its cluster of risk factors, raises the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Discuss the initial stages and drivers of the American Revolutionary War.
Understand the historical context and reasons behind the policy of salutary neglect and its impact on the British control over the American colonies.
Analyze the strategic significance of the Sugar Act of 1764 and its role in the events leading to the American Revolution.
Explain the rationale behind British Parliament's restrictions on the colonial printing of paper money.

Definitions:

Glucose

A simple sugar and an important energy source in living organisms, also one of the main products of photosynthesis.

Bacterium's Resource

Bacterium's Resource refers to the nutrients and environmental conditions that support the growth and survival of bacteria.

Niche

The totality of an organism’s adaptations, its use of resources, and the lifestyle to which it is fitted in its community; how an organism uses materials in its environment as well as how it interacts with other organisms; also called ecological niche. See fundamental niche and realized niche.

Resource Partitioning

The reduction of competition for environmental resources such as food that occurs among coexisting species as a result of each species’ niche differing from the others in one or more ways.

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