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SUBMITTER: Porez G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3413216 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Porez Geoffrey G Prawitt Janne J Gross Barbara B Staels Bart B
Journal of lipid research 20120501 9
Dyslipidemia is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and atherosclerosis. When dyslipidemia coincides with other metabolic disorders such as obesity, hypertension, and glucose intolerance, defined as the metabolic syndrome (MS), individuals present an elevated risk to develop type 2 diabetes (T2D) as well as CVD. Because the MS epidemic represents a growing public health problem worldwide, the development of therapies remains a major challenge. Alterations of bile acid pool ...[more]