Investigating the origin of obesity-induced dyslipidaemia

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/566960

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

This project will investigate a possible mechanism to explain why it is that obese and diabetic individuals often have a typical type of abnormal fats in the blood particularly elevated triglycerides. If this theory is confirmed it may lead to new targets for improving abnormal lipids in these conditions.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $332,798.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Nutritional science

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Cardiovascular diseases | Dyslipidaemia | Insulin resistance | Metabolic syndrome | Nutrition | Obesity | cardiovascular risk | diabetes (type 2) | signalling pathways

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