[Insulin resistance is also a major component of the metabolic syndrome that, in association with other factors such as hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and central obesity, defines a pre-diabetic atherogenic state that leads to adverse cardiovascular events.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE