Published in Physician Law Weekly, October 4th, 2006
Study 1: Increased levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus after myocardial infarction are related to endothelial dysfunction.
According to recent research from Sweden, "The pathophysiology of insulin resistance and atherosclerosis may share a common inflammatory basis, maintaining endothelial dysfunction, suggesting why patients with T2DM (type 2 diabetes mellitus) have an impaired prognosis after an MI (myocardial infarction), but it remains unclear how these parameters are inter-related. Forty patients with an MI (20...
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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2006-10-04)
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