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Obesity and high waist circumference are associated with low circulating pentraxin-3 in acute coronary syndrome

BACKGROUND: Long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is a component of the pentraxin superfamily and a potential marker of vascular damage and inflammation, associated with negative outcome in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and PTX3 production is rep...

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Autores principales: Barazzoni, Rocco, Aleksova, Aneta, Carriere, Cosimo, Cattin, Maria Rosa, Zanetti, Michela, Vinci, Pierandrea, Stolfo, Davide, Guarnieri, Gianfranco, Sinagra, Gianfranco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24215445
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-12-167