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Adiponectin and vascular properties in obese patients: is it a novel biomarker of early atherosclerosis?
Adiponectin is an adipocyte-derived collagen-like protein, highly specific to adipose tissue and may represent an important link between obesity and atherosclerosis. The present study was designed to investiga...
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The effect of a rapid weight loss induced by laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding on arterial stiffness, metabolic and inflammatory parameters in patients with morbid obesity
To determine the effect of drastic weight loss on arterial compliance, inflammatory and metabolic parameters in patients with morbid obesity with and without cardiovascular risk factors who underwent laparosco...
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What is the role of lipoprotein abnormalities and platelet aggregation defects in cardiovascular disease in chronic dialysis patients?
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Genetic and non-genetic control of apoprotein
In the last Symposium, we described findings of abnormal lipoprotein systems in human subjects with dyslipoproteinemia, predominantly hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) [1]. These studies [2, 3] can be summarized as f...