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Relationships between obesity and ischaemic heart disease in type II diabetic subjects homozygous for the apoprotein E3 allele.
International journal of tissue reactions - 1 Jan 1991
Boemi M, Romagnoli F, De Tommaso G, Ricciotti R, Fumelli P
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the influence of obesity on ischaemic heart disease frequency in a well-documented type II diabetic population. To eliminate one of the possible sources of variability for plasma lipid concentrations, only subjects showing the apoprotein E phenotype, indicative of homozygosity for the epsilon 3 allele (i.e. an E3/E3 genotype), have been recruited. A larger...
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