Researchers explore role of fat-carrying lipids in diabetes
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a review article published this month in Nature Reviews: Nephrology, UC Davis cardiovascular specialists elucidate the role of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins - carriers of fats in the blood - in the initiation and progression of diabetic nephropathy, the leading cause of premature death in patients with diabetes and the most common cause of long-term kidney failure in the United States.