SLC5A1 and metabolic syndrome: In line with data on human hearts, myocardial SGLT1 mRNA or protein expression was found to be upregulated in non-diabetic small animal models of acute myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury [55] or ischemic preconditioning [56], permanent LAD ligation (model of ICM) [51,57,58], and hemodynamic-overload induced HF [59,60], as well as in models of metabolic syndrome and T2DM [51,54,61,62,63,64].