Ectopic Fat in Insulin Resistance, Dyslipidemia, and Cardiometabolic Disease

Gerald I. Shulman (Wed,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d952c7f20ef2633068482b — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra1011035

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