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Association between insulin resistance and the development of cardiovascular disease

Overview of attention for article published in Cardiovascular Diabetology, August 2018
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Title
Association between insulin resistance and the development of cardiovascular disease
Published in
Cardiovascular Diabetology, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12933-018-0762-4
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Valeska Ormazabal, Soumyalekshmi Nair, Omar Elfeky, Claudio Aguayo, Carlos Salomon, Felipe A. Zuñiga

Abstract

For many years, cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been the leading cause of death around the world. Often associated with CVD are comorbidities such as obesity, abnormal lipid profiles and insulin resistance. Insulin is a key hormone that functions as a regulator of cellular metabolism in many tissues in the human body. Insulin resistance is defined as a decrease in tissue response to insulin stimulation thus insulin resistance is characterized by defects in uptake and oxidation of glucose, a decrease in glycogen synthesis, and, to a lesser extent, the ability to suppress lipid oxidation. Literature widely suggests that free fatty acids are the predominant substrate used in the adult myocardium for ATP production, however, the cardiac metabolic network is highly flexible and can use other substrates, such as glucose, lactate or amino acids. During insulin resistance, several metabolic alterations induce the development of cardiovascular disease. For instance, insulin resistance can induce an imbalance in glucose metabolism that generates chronic hyperglycemia, which in turn triggers oxidative stress and causes an inflammatory response that leads to cell damage. Insulin resistance can also alter systemic lipid metabolism which then leads to the development of dyslipidemia and the well-known lipid triad: (1) high levels of plasma triglycerides, (2) low levels of high-density lipoprotein, and (3) the appearance of small dense low-density lipoproteins. This triad, along with endothelial dysfunction, which can also be induced by aberrant insulin signaling, contribute to atherosclerotic plaque formation. Regarding the systemic consequences associated with insulin resistance and the metabolic cardiac alterations, it can be concluded that insulin resistance in the myocardium generates damage by at least three different mechanisms: (1) signal transduction alteration, (2) impaired regulation of substrate metabolism, and (3) altered delivery of substrates to the myocardium. The aim of this review is to discuss the mechanisms associated with insulin resistance and the development of CVD. New therapies focused on decreasing insulin resistance may contribute to a decrease in both CVD and atherosclerotic plaque generation.

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Unknown 1472 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 211 14%
Student > Master 169 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 139 9%
Researcher 99 7%
Student > Postgraduate 71 5%
Other 231 16%
Unknown 552 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 270 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 232 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 96 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 61 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 60 4%
Other 163 11%
Unknown 590 40%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 138. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 September 2023.
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Outputs of similar age from Cardiovascular Diabetology
#2
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