Researchers implicate suspect in heart disease linked to diabetes

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 16:01 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have struggled to trace the specific biology behind diabetes-associated heart disease risk or find ways to intervene. Now, researchers have hunted down a possible culprit -- a protein called IRS-1, which is crucial for the smooth muscle cells that make up veins and arteries.

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