{"id":6780,"date":"2015-12-18T05:16:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T22:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2019-03-20T15:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:11:04","slug":"do-current-ems-treatments-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/veterinary-medicine\/do-current-ems-treatments-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Current EMS Treatments Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The warnings aren\u2019t new to many owners: Having an overweight or obese horse means more than just harboring a nutritional overachiever. Overweight horses are at risk of developing several dangerous health conditions, including equine metabolic syndrome (EMS), which in turn can lead to laminitis and insulin resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Weight loss is known to be a key factor in abolishing EMS and improving horses\u2019 health and longevity, but achieving it seems easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/36750\/do-current-ems-treatments-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McGowan said owners can find success if they apply current treatment recommendations for EMS, but only with sufficient veterinary support and advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,87,77,40,31],"tags":[230,231,173],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-condition","category-metabolism","category-obesity","category-thehorse","category-veterinary-medicine","tag-ems","tag-equine-metabolic-syndrome","tag-overweight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8244,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions\/8244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}