The distinctive nature of atherosclerotic vascular disease in diabetes: Pathophysiological and morphological insights

Current Diabetes Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 280-285

  Puri, Rishi ^a   Kataoka, Yu ^a   Uno, Kiyoko ^a   Nicholls, Stephen J ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerotic vascular disease; Diabetes; Morphological; Pathophysiological

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MORBIDITY; MORPHOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SOCIOECONOMICS; THROMBOGENESIS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCINOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84861096632     PISSN: 15344827     EISSN: 15390829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11892-012-0270-y     Document Type: Article

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