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Intima-Media Thickness in Severe Obesity: Links with BMI and metabolic status but not with systemic or adipose tissue inflammation
OBJECTIVE: Obesity is associated with cardiovascular risk and a low-grade inflammatory state in both blood and adipose tissue (AT). Whether inflammation contributes to vascular alteration remains an open question. To test this hypothesis, we measured arterial intima-media thickness (IMT), which refl...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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American Diabetes Association
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816856/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24062328 http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-0256 |