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[The "second atherogenic phenotype" or the role of insulin resistance in vascular risk].
Archives des maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux - 1 Oct 1998
Ziegler O, Guerci B, Drouin P
Abstract excerpt
LDL cholesterol is the principal vascular risk factor but it is not the only one. Paradoxically, the atherogenic role of triglycerides or that of metabolic abnormalities of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins has been underestimated. It is convenient to use the term "second atherogenic phenotype" for those phenotypes associating a hypertriglyceridaemia, a low HDL-cholesterol, a moderate increase in LDL cholesterol...
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