CENTRAL OBESITY PREDICTS CIRCULATING PROGENITOR CELL LEVELS

Authors :: Heval Mohamad Kelli
Pratik B. Sandesara
Iraj Hesaroieh
Ayman Alkhoder
Laurence S. Sperling
Viola Vaccarino
Ayman Samman Tahhan
Arshed A. Quyyumi
Greg S. Martin
Mohamad Mazen Gafeer
Matthew L. Topel
Jay Khambhati
Thomas R. Ziegler
Frank Corrigan
Kenneth L. Brigham
Edmund K. Waller
Marc Allard-Ratick
Ernestine Mahar
Eric Stahl
Hiroshi Aida
Source :: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 69:1789
Publication Year :: 2017
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2017.
Abstract: Background: Obesity is a pro-inflammatory state leading to endothelial cell injury and dysfunction. In particular, central (android) obesity is associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk. Bone marrow derived CD34+ progenitor cells (PC) levels are elevated in patients with high body mass

Subjects :: business.industry
CD34
medicine.disease
Obesity
Endothelial stem cell
Circulating Progenitor Cell
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cancer research
medicine
Disease risk
In patient
Bone marrow
Progenitor cell
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business

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