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Premature atherosclerosis associated with monogenic insulin resistance.
Circulation - 8 May 2001
Hegele R A
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BACKGROUND: The common insulin resistance syndrome, with obesity, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, and hypertension, is associated with increased risk of atherosclerosis. Early atherosclerosis in rare monogenic forms of insulin resistance, however, has not been extensively documented. Cardiovascular end points were thus evaluated in subjects with Dunnigan-type familial partial lipodystrophy (FPLD) due to mutations at...
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