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SUBMITTER: Tousoulis D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6159396 | biostudies-other | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tousoulis Dimitris D Oikonomou Evangelos E Siasos Gerasimos G Stefanadis Christodoulos C
European cardiology 20140701 1
Diabetes mellitus and heart failure are two multifaceted entities characterised by high morbidity and mortality. Early epidemiological and prospective studies have observed the frequent co-existence of both conditions. Importantly, diabetes mellitus can precipitate or worsen heart failure due to the accumulation of advanced glycation end products, oxidative stress, inflammatory status impairment, decay of intracellular calcium, changes in microRNAs expression, not to mention atherosclerosis prog ...[more]