Autoimmune diabetes inflames the heart.
Patients with type 1 diabetes tend to suffer subsequent and persistent inflammation of cardiac tissue after a heart attack.
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA. robert.eckel@ucdenver.edu
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