Archive for December 3, 2008
Insulin and Atherosclerosis
My last post probably sounded really speculative when I suggested that whatever causes diabetes, should also be suspected to cause atherosclerosis. This raises the rather disconcerting possibility that insulin itself causes atherosclerosis or at least makes it worse. Insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia characterize Type 2 diabetes so it’s certainly possible that chronically high insulin causes the high [...]
Posted on December 3, 2008 at 1:00 am by Charles · Permalink
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In: Cholesterol, Diabetes, Diet, Disease, Insulin
In: Cholesterol, Diabetes, Diet, Disease, Insulin
