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Krasnoff JB, Painter PL, Wallace JP, Bass NM, Merriman RB. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now the most common cause of abnormal liver enzyme levels in the United States. Several characteristics of the metabolic syndrome are also...

Hotamisligil GS. This paper reviews the recent advances concerning the role of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and its complications. The ER is the site where all the proteins are formed. Under conditions...

Erion DM, Shulman GI. This review focuses on the effect of increases in intracellular diacylglycerol content on hepatic and skeletal muscle insulin resistance associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Overnutrition is the most common cause for...

McLaughlin TM, Liu T, Yee G, Abbasi F, Lamendola C, Reaven GM, Tsao P, Cushman SW, Sherman A. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of pioglitazone treatment on adipogenesis and insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese, nondiabetic...

Berger JS, Jordan CO, Lloyd-Jones D, Blumenthal RS. As cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the Western world, screening for cardiovascular risk must be improved to target asymptomatic individuals as well as high-risk...