Hyperleptinemia positively associated with central arterial stiffness in hemodialysis patients

OBJECTIVE: Leptin plays a role in stimulating vascular inflammation, vascular smooth muscle hypertrophy, and augmenting blood pressure, which contributes to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and leads to arterial stiffness. This vascular damage, measured by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfP...

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Autores principales: Kuo, Chiu-Huang, Lin, Yu-Li, Lee, Chung-Jen, Wang, Chih-Hsien, Lai, Yu-Hsien, Liou, Hung-Hsiang, Hsu, Bang-Gee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29304064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190694

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29304064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190694

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