High Fat Diet Aggravates Cardiomyopathy In Murine Chronic Chagas Disease

We report, for the first time, the effect of HFD on myocardial inflammation, vasculopathy, and other types of dysfunction observed during chronic T. cruzi infection. Our results show that HFD perturbs lipid metabolism and induces oxidative stress to exacerbate late chronic Chagas disease cardiac pathology.
Source: Microbes and Infection - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research