Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Previous Myocardial Infarction and Mild Diabetes Mellitus Following Treatment With Pioglitazone

Autor: Masanori Asakura, Jiyoong Kim, Hiroshi Asanuma, Yasuharu Nakama, Kengo Tsukahara, Yorihiko Higashino, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Shinji Koba, Mitsuru Tsujimoto, Hideo Himeno, Yasuyuki Maruyama, Takanori Ookusa, Shunichi Yoda, Hiroshi Suzuki, Shinji Okubo, Makoto Shimizu, Yuji Hashimoto, Kazuo Satake, Susumu Fujino, Hiroyasu Uzui, Yoshiyuki Nagai, Tohru Kohno, Sumio Mizuno, Makoto Nakahama, Hounin Kanaya, Toyoaki Murohara, Kazuki Fukui, Hiroyuki Takase, Nobuyuki Ohte, Takaaki Shiono, Masatake Fukunami, Tsutomu Endo, Reimin Sawada, Kenshi Fujii, Motoshi Takeuchi, Shuntaro Ikeda, Koichi Mizuno, Masaaki Uematsu, Taku Matsubara, Shoji Yano, Jun Takahashi, Kousei Ueda, Yoshihiko Kinoshita, Koichi Tamita, Hideki Hayashi, Toshimitsu Hamasaki, Masafumi Kitakaze
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: EClinicalMedicine, Vol 4, Iss , Pp 10-24 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2589-5370
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2018.09.006
Popis: Background: Secondary prevention in patients with myocardial infarction (MI) is critically important to prevent ischaemic heart failure and reduce social burden. Pioglitazone improves vascular dysfunction and prevents coronary atherosclerosis, mainly via anti-inflammatory and antiatherogenic effects by enhancing adiponectin production in addition to antihyperglycemic effects, thus suggesting that pioglitazone attenuates cardiovascular events in patients with mild (HbA1c levels
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