Identification of Matrix Metalloproteinase-12 as a Candidate Molecule for Prevention and Treatment of Cardiometabolic Disease

• Main Authors: Melina Amor (Author), Veronica Moreno-Viedma (Author), Alisina Sarabi (Author), Nicole G Grün (Author), Bianca Itariu (Author), Lukas Leitner (Author), Irene Steiner (Author), Martin Bilban (Author), Keiichi Kodama (Author), Atul J Butte (Author), Guenther Staffler (Author), Maximilian Zeyda (Author), Thomas M Stulnig (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Obesity is strongly associated with metabolic syndrome, a combination of risk factors that predisposes to development of the cardiometabolic diseases: atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Prevention of metabolic syndrome requires novel interventions to addres...