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Obesity, Inflammation and Acute Myocardial Infarction - Expression of leptin, IL-6 and high sensitivity-CRP in Chennai based population

BACKGROUND: Obesity, characterised by increased fat mass and is currently regarded as a pro-inflammatory state and often associated with increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) including Myocardial infarction. There is an upregulation of inflammatory markers such as interleukin-6, interleuki...

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Autores principales: Rajendran, Karthick, Devarajan, Nalini, Ganesan, Manohar, Ragunathan, Malathi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22891684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-9560-10-13