Mechanisms linking obesity with cardiovascular disease

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Obesity is associated with macrophage accumulation in adipose tissue

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Inflammation and Atherosclerosis

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Association between Multiple Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Atherosclerosis in Children and Young Adults

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Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Pathophysiology, Evaluation, and Effect of Weight Loss: An Update of the 1997 American Heart Association Scientific Statement on Obesity and Heart Disease From the Obesity Committee of the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism

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Obesity and the risk of heart failure

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Obesity and the risk of myocardial infarction in 27,000 participants from 52 countries: a case–control study

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A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century

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Overweight, Obesity, and Mortality in a Large Prospective Cohort of Persons 50 to 71 Years Old

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Adipose Tissue, Inflammation, and Cardiovascular Disease

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Body Weight and Mortality among Women

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Inflammatory Cytokine Concentrations Are Acutely Increased by Hyperglycemia in Humans: Role of Oxidative Stress

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A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century

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Obesity in Adulthood and Its Consequences for Life Expectancy: A Life-Table Analysis

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Is Oxidative Stress the Pathogenic Mechanism Underlying Insulin Resistance, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease? The Common Soil Hypothesis Revisited

Ceriello, A., & Motz, E. (2004) · Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology · doi:10.1161/01.atv.0000122852.22604.78 · Cited by 1,378 · see citing works

The Bogalusa Heart Study

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Retinol-Binding Protein 4 and Insulin Resistance in Lean, Obese, and Diabetic Subjects

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Lipotoxic heart disease in obese rats: Implications for human obesity

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Adipose-selective targeting of the GLUT4 gene impairs insulin action in muscle and liver

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Abdominal Adiposity and Coronary Heart Disease in Women

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"Portal" adipose tissue as a generator of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

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The interactions between inflammation and coagulation

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Treatment of obesity: need to focus on high risk abdominally obese patients

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Adipokines: molecular links between obesity and atheroslcerosis

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Ceramides in insulin resistance and lipotoxicity

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Adiposity as Compared with Physical Activity in Predicting Mortality among Women

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Physical Fitness as a Predictor of Mortality among Healthy, Middle-Aged Norwegian Men

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Insulin resistance and cigarette smoking

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Acute effects of cigarette smoke on inflammation and oxidative stress: a review

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Adipocyte-Derived Plasma Protein Adiponectin Acts as a Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-BB–Binding Protein and Regulates Growth Factor–Induced Common Postreceptor Signal in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell

Arita, Y., Kihara, S., Ouchi, N., Maeda, K., Kuriyama, H., Okamoto, Y., Kumada, M., Hotta, K., Nishida, M., Takahashi, M., et al. (2002) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/01.cir.0000018622.84402.ff · Cited by 694 · see citing works

Elevation of Free Fatty Acids Induces Inflammation and Impairs Vascular Reactivity in Healthy Subjects

Tripathy, D., Mohanty, P., Dhindsa, S., Syed, T., Ghanim, H., Aljada, A., & Dandona, P. (2003) · Diabetes · doi:10.2337/diabetes.52.12.2882 · Cited by 658 · see citing works

Selective Suppression of Endothelial Cell Apoptosis by the High Molecular Weight Form of Adiponectin

Kobayashi, H., Ouchi, N., Kihara, S., Walsh, K., Kumada, M., Abe, Y., Funahashi, T., & Matsuzawa, Y. (2004) · Circulation Research · doi:10.1161/01.res.0000119921.86460.37 · Cited by 658 · see citing works

Visceral Fat Is an Independent Predictor of All‐cause Mortality in Men

Kuk, J. L., Katzmarzyk, P. T., Nichaman, M. Z., Church, T. S., Blair, S. N., & Ross, R. (2006) · Obesity · doi:10.1038/oby.2006.43 · Cited by 643 · see citing works

C-Reactive Protein Increases Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Expression and Activity in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells

Devaraj, S., Xu, D. Y., & Jialal, I. (2003) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/01.cir.0000052617.91920.fd · Cited by 641 · see citing works

Association of Hypoadiponectinemia With Impaired Vasoreactivity

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The obesity epidemic, metabolic syndrome and future prevention strategies

James, P. T., Rigby, N., Leach, R., & International Obesity Task Force (2004) · European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation · doi:10.1097/01.hjr.0000114707.27531.48 · Cited by 570 · see citing works

Adiponectin Specifically Increased Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1 Through Interleukin-10 Expression in Human Macrophages

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The metabolic syndrome and adipocytokines

Matsuzawa, Y. (2006) · FEBS Letters · doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2006.04.028 · Cited by 541 · see citing works

Impact of Glucose Intolerance and Insulin Resistance on Cardiac Structure and Function: Sex-Related Differences in the Framingham Heart Study

Rutter, M. K., Parise, H., Benjamin, E. J., Levy, D., Larson, M. G., Meigs, J. B., Nesto, R. W., Wilson, P. W. F., & Vasan, R. S. (2003) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/01.cir.0000045671.62860.98 · Cited by 511 · see citing works

Obesity as Compared With Physical Activity in Predicting Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women

Li, T. Y., Rana, J. S., Manson, J. E., Willett, W. C., Stampfer, M. J., Colditz, G. A., Rexrode, K. M., & Hu, F. B. (2006) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/circulationaha.105.574087 · Cited by 472 · see citing works

Adaptation and Maladaptation of the Heart in Diabetes: Part II

Young, M. E., McNulty, P. H., & Taegtmeyer, H. (2002) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/01.cir.0000012467.61045.87 · Cited by 465 · see citing works

Myocardial triglycerides and systolic function in humans: In vivo evaluation by localized proton spectroscopy and cardiac imaging

Szczepaniak, L. S., Dobbins, R. L., Metzger, G. J., Sartoni‐D'Ambrosia, G., Arbique, D., Vongpatanasin, W., Unger, R. H., & Victor, R. G. (2003) · Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · doi:10.1002/mrm.10372 · Cited by 441 · see citing works

Review article: Is obesity an inflammatory illness? Role of low‐grade inflammation and macrophage infiltration in human white adipose tissue

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Protection Against Oxidative Stress—Induced Insulin Resistance in Rat L6 Muscle Cells by Micromolar Concentrations of α-Lipoic Acid

Maddux, B. A., See, W., Lawrence, J. C., Goldfine, A. L., Goldfine, I. D., & Evans, J. L. (2001) · Diabetes · doi:10.2337/diabetes.50.2.404 · Cited by 405 · see citing works

PAI-1 and the Metabolic Syndrome: Links, Causes, and Consequences

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Adiposity of the Heart*, Revisited

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Elevated Alanine Aminotransferase Predicts New-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Independently of Classical Risk Factors, Metabolic Syndrome, and C-Reactive Protein in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study

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Leptin-dependent platelet aggregation and arterial thrombosis suggests a mechanism for atherothrombotic disease in obesity

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Fitness and Fatness as Predictors of Mortality from All Causes and from Cardiovascular Disease in Men and Women in the Lipid Research Clinics Study

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Obesity, haemostasis and the fibrinolytic system

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Influence of Leptin on Arterial Distensibility

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Obesity and dyslipidemia

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The Metabolic Syndrome, Circulating Oxidized LDL, and Risk of Myocardial Infarction in Well-Functioning Elderly People in the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Cohort

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Insulin Resistance and Atherosclerosis

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LDL Cholesterol as a Strong Predictor of Coronary Heart Disease in Diabetic Individuals With Insulin Resistance and Low LDL

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Ectopic fat storage in heart, blood vessels and kidneys in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases

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Preventing Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes

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Visceral Periadventitial Adipose Tissue Regulates Arterial Tone of Mesenteric Arteries

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Lipoprotein lipase in diabetes

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The Fitness, Obesity, and Health Equation

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The release of the adipocytokine visfatin is regulated by glucose and insulin

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Abdominal obesity is associated with accelerated progression of carotid atherosclerosis in men

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Clinical relevance of the biochemical, metabolic, and genetic factors that influence low-density lipoprotein heterogeneity

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Free Fatty Acids Are Independently Associated with All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Subjects with Coronary Artery Disease

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Metabolic and Inflammation Variable Clusters and Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes

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Stromal Cells Are the Main Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1-Producing Cells in Human Fat

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Adiposity as Compared With Physical Activity in Predicting Mortality Among Women

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Plasma PAI-1 Levels Are More Strongly Related to Liver Steatosis Than to Adipose Tissue Accumulation

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Adipocyte differentiation induces dynamic changes in NF-κB expression and activity

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Association of Hypoadiponectinemia With Smoking Habit in Men

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The Fatty Liver and Insulin Resistance

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Chemokines in Children With Heterozygous Familiar Hypercholesterolemia

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