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Lean heart: Role of leptin in cardiac hypertrophy and metabolism

Leptin is an adipokine that has been linked with the cardiovascular complications resulting from obesity such as hypertension and heart disease. Obese patients have high levels of circulating leptin due to increased fat mass. Clinical and population studies have correlated high levels of circulating...

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Published in:World J Cardiol
Main Authors: Hall, Michael E, Harmancey, Romain, Stec, David E
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4577678/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26413228
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4330/wjc.v7.i9.511
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