Epigenetic Mechanisms in Diabetic Vascular Complications and Metabolic Memory: The 2020 Edwin Bierman Award Lecture

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Macrovascular complications such as atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction and stroke, and microvascular complications such as nephropathy, retinopathy, and neuropathy are the major causes of increased morbidity and mortality in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Increased inflammation, oxidative stress, and fibrosis are common features in most diabetes complications. Although extensive studies have examined the...

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