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Insulin Resistance Mediates Crosstalk between Skeletal Muscle and the Heart to Prevent Cardiac Dysfunction
2020-11-15
Abstract excerpt
Obesity and type 2 diabetes milieus (T2DM) are the leading causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Although insulin resistance is believed to underlie these disorders, a paradox exists that obese patients with cardiovascular diseases have better prognoses relative to leaner patients with the same diagnoses, whereas improvement of insulin sensitivity by thiazolidines significantly increases the risk of he...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9c9000cc-1e07-5bc3-924e-08e1763358c3
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.11.14.383109
