Endocrine Abstracts

An increasing body of evidence suggests that oxidative stress is involved in the pathogenesis of a wide range of cardiovascular diseases including hypertension, type 2 diabetes, hypercholesterolaemia, atherosclerosis and heart failure. It is a matter for debate whether this increased oxidative stress has a primary causative role in cardiovascular disease pathogenesis or rather is a vascular sequel of disease progression. There is, however, emerging evidence for genetic compone...