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Genetics of the cardiometabolic syndrome: new insights and therapeutic implications.
Therapeutic advances in cardiovascular disease - 1 Oct 2007
Sookoian Silvia, Pirola Carlos J
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Although the definition of the phenotype is imprecise, cardiometabolic syndrome (CMS) includes a constellation of complex diseases such as type 2 diabetes, dislipidemias, central obesity and hypertension, proinflammatory and prothrombotic states, ovarian polycystosis and fatty liver. The genetics of each disease is complex in itself and varies in spectrum from monogenic and syndromic models of inheritance,...
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