Functional role of gut microbiota and PCSK9 in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Einstein-Mount Sinai Diabetes Research Center (ES-DRC), The "Norman Fleischer" Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
• ² Department of Medicine, Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Einstein-Mount Sinai Diabetes Research Center (ES-DRC), The "Norman Fleischer" Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Einstein-Mount Sinai Diabetes Research Center (ES-DRC), The "Norman Fleischer" Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
• ³ Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Wilf Family Cardiovascular Research Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Montefiore University Hospital, New York, NY, USA; Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Einstein-Mount Sinai Diabetes Research Center (ES-DRC), The "Norman Fleischer" Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, "Federico II" University, Naples, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].