Autoimmune diabetes inflames the heart

Sci Transl Med. 2012 Jun 13;4(138):138fs18. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3004219.

Abstract

Patients with type 1 diabetes tend to suffer subsequent and persistent inflammation of cardiac tissue after a heart attack.

MeSH terms

  • Atherosclerosis / etiology
  • Atherosclerosis / immunology
  • Autoimmune Diseases / immunology
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / complications
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / immunology*
  • Heart Diseases / etiology
  • Heart Diseases / immunology*
  • Humans
  • Models, Biological
  • Myocardial Infarction / etiology
  • Myocardial Infarction / immunology
  • Myocarditis / etiology
  • Myocarditis / immunology