The role of cardiokines in metabolic heart disease
Metabolic heart disease (MHD) caused by obesity or diabetes is characterized by cardiac hypertrophy, diastolic dysfunction, and fibrosis - a maladaptive remodeling of the extracellular matrix. Though the influence of cardiac fibrosis on the left ventricular diastolic dysfunction has been reported, l...
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| Language: | en_US |
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/16212 |