Vascular stiffness in insulin resistance and obesity

G Jia, AR Aroor, VG DeMarco… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes are associated with a substantially
increased prevalence of vascular fibrosis and stiffness, with attendant increased risk of …

Endothelial mineralocorticoid receptor deletion prevents diet-induced cardiac diastolic dysfunction in females

G Jia, J Habibi, VG DeMarco, LA Martinez-Lemus… - …, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Overnutrition and insulin resistance are especially prominent risk factors for the
development of cardiac diastolic dysfunction in females. We recently reported that …

Mechanisms of arterial stiffness

BS Fleenor, AJ Berrones, BS Fleenor… - Arterial Stiffness …, 2015 - Springer
Current understanding for the mechanisms contributing to arterial stiffness is limited. The
field is rapidly growing, however, and the complex process of functional, structural and …