RW van der Meer, LJ Rijzewijk, HWAM de Jong, HJ … - Circulation, 2009 - Am Heart Assoc Methods and Results— Seventy-eight T2DM men without structural heart disease or inducible
ischemia as assessed by dobutamine stress echocardiography were assigned to pioglitazone
(30 mg/d) or metformin (2000 mg/d) and matching placebo for 24 weeks. The primary end ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - All 5 versions
N Varki, D Anderson, JG Herndon, T Pham, CJ … - Evolutionary …, 2009 - cmm.ucsd.edu The commonest cause of human deaths in most devel- oped and developing countries is
atherosclerosis, a chronic progressive disease that affects large arteries, including the coronary
blood vessels (Rosamond et al. 2007). Atherosclerosis is a form of chronic inflammation ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 4 versions
LJ Rijzewijk, RW van der Meer, HJ Lamb, HWAM … - Journal of the American …, 2009 - Elsevier In 78 insulin-naive type 2 diabetes men (age 56.5 ± 5.6 years, body mass index 28.7 ± 3.5
kg/m 2 , glycosylated hemoglobin A 1c 7.1 ± 1.0%; expressed as mean ± SD) without cardiac
ischemia and 24 normoglycemic control subjects (age 54.5 ± 7.1 years, body mass index ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - All 7 versions
G Terui, T Goto, M Katsuta, I Aoki, H Ito - Journal of Cardiology, 2009 - Elsevier Fifteen T2DM patients were enrolled in the ON group, and the parameters were examined before
and after pioglitazone administration (15–30 mg/day) for 6 months. Twenty-four T2DM patients
were assigned to the OFF group, and the parameters were examined before and 6 ... Related articles - All 2 versions
SH Ihm, K Chang, HY Kim, SH Baek, HJ Youn, KB … - Basic Research in … - Springer Abstract Receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) and connective tissue growth
factor (CTGF) play a key role in diabetic myocardial fibrosis, and peroxisome proliferator-activated
receptor-c (PPAR-c) activation has been reported to reduce RAGE and CTGF expression. ...