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Lack of effects of pioglitazone on cardiac function in patients with type 2 diabetes and evidence of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction: a tissue doppler imaging study

BACKGROUND: Thiazolidinediones, used for the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), are associated with an increased incidence of heart failure. We sought to investigate the effects of pioglitazone on novel echocardiographic indices of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in...

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Autores principales: Naka, Katerina K, Pappas, Konstantinos, Papathanassiou, Katerina, Papamichael, Nikolaos D, Kazakos, Nikolaos, Kanioglou, Chryssanthi, Makriyiannis, Demetrios, Katsouras, Christos S, Liveris, Kostas, Tsatsoulis, Agathocles, Michalis, Lampros K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20863381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-9-57