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SUBMITTER: Sobczak AIS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6940903 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sobczak Amélie I S AIS Stewart Alan J AJ
International journal of molecular sciences 20191216 24
Diabetes (both type-1 and type-2) affects millions of individuals worldwide. A major cause of death for individuals with diabetes is cardiovascular diseases, in part since both types of diabetes lead to physiological changes that affect haemostasis. Those changes include altered concentrations of coagulatory proteins, hyper-activation of platelets, changes in metal ion homeostasis, alterations in lipid metabolism (leading to lipotoxicity in the heart and atherosclerosis), the presence of pro-coa ...[more]