Plasma proneurotensin and incidence of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, and mortality.

Summary, in English

Neurotensin regulates both satiety and breast cancer growth in the experimental setting, but little is known about its role in the development of breast cancer or cardiometabolic disease in humans.

• Author: Olle Melander; Alan S Maisel; Peter Almgren; Jonas Manjer; Mattias Belting; Bo Hedblad; Gunnar Engström; Ute Kilger; Peter Nilsson; Andreas Bergmann; Marju Orho-Melander
• Department/s: Cardiovascular Research - Hypertension; Translational Muscle Research; Surgery; Breastcancer-genetics; Cardiovascular Research - Epidemiology; Internal Medicine - Epidemiology; Diabetes - Cardiovascular Disease; EXODIAB: Excellence of Diabetes Research in Sweden; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2012
• Language: English
• Pages: 1469-1475
• Publication/Series: JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
• Volume: 308
• Issue: 14
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23047361?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.12998
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: American Medical Association
• Topic: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems; Endocrinology and Diabetes
• Keywords: Breast Neoplasms: blood; Breast Neoplasms: mortality; Cardiovascular Diseases: blood; Cardiovascular Diseases: mortality; Diabetes Mellitus: blood; Diabetes Mellitus: mortality; Neurotensin: blood; Protein Precursors: blood; Sweden: epidemiology
• Status: Published
• Research group: Cardiovascular Research - Hypertension; Genomics, Diabetes and Endocrinology; Surgery; Cardiovascular Research - Epidemiology; Internal Medicine - Epidemiology; Diabetes - Cardiovascular Disease
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1538-3598