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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Autores principales: Dalmas, Elise, Kahn, Jean-François, Giral, Philippe, Abdennour, Meriem, Bouillot, Jean-Luc, Fellahi, Soraya, Oppert, Jean-Michel, Clément, Karine, Guerre-Millo, Michèle, Poitou, Christine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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