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Lipoproteins and diabetic microvascular complications.
Current pharmaceutical design - 1 Jan 2004
Jenkins A J, Rowley K G, Lyons T J, Best J D, Hill M A, Klein R L
Abstract excerpt
Risk factors for the microvascular complications (nephropathy and retinopathy) of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes mellitus and the associated accelerated atherosclerosis include: age, diabetes duration, genetic factors, hyperglycaemia, hypertension, smoking, inflammation, glycation and oxidative stress and dyslipoproteinaemia. Hypertriglyceridaemia, low HDL and small dense LDL are common features of Type 2 diabetes...
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