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Cholesteryl ester transfer protein polymorphism associated with macroangiopathy in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes.
Atherosclerosis - 1 May 2001
Meguro S, Takei I, Murata M, Hirose H, Takei N, Mitsuyoshi Y, Ishii K, Oguchi S, Shinohara J, Takeshita E, Watanabe K, Saruta T
Abstract excerpt
A polymorphism in the gene for cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) has been reported to be associated with serum cholesterol levels and risk for atherosclerotic vascular diseases, and to clarify the relationship between the gene polymorphism for CETP and macroangiopathy in diabetes mellitus, a cross-sectional study was performed. The subjects of the study were182 Japanese (age: 59.6+/-8.6 years) with type 2...
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