Article
Cardiovascular disease in genotypes for obesity and diabetes.
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) - 1 Jan 2000
McCune S A
Abstract excerpt
Cardiovascular diseases represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality in both obese and diabetic patients. The mechanisms by which diabetes or obesity cause the cardiac lesions is poorly understood. A number of risk factors associated with the development of atherosclerotic vascular disease,...
Topics
- Animals
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Diabetes Complications
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genotype
- Humans
- Obesity