Omentin-1 and risk of myocardial infarction and stroke: Results from the EPIC-Potsdam cohort study

The recently identified adipokine omentin-1 is inversely associated with body fatness, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in cross-sectional analyses. However, prospective data on the association between plasma omentin-1 levels and future risk of CVD are lacking. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between omentin-1 and incident myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke.

Source: Atherosclerosis - June 1, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Juliane Menzel, Romina di Giuseppe, Ronald Biemann, Clemens Wittenbecher, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Tobias Pischon, Andreas Fritsche, Matthias B. Schulze, Heiner Boeing, Berend Isermann, Cornelia Weikert Source Type: research