VEGFA and metabolic syndrome: Importantly, levels of some inflammatory biomarkers associated with MetS were found to be decreased after probiotics treatment, e.g., serum CRP, the soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (sVCAM-1), IL-6, tumour necrosis factor α (TNF-α), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and thrombomodulin [100,107,109].