Primary Recipient

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM,THE

Amount

$792,977.00

Award Date

6/01/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is of major epidemiological importance, accounting for a high incidence of heart failure in these patients. Hyperglycemia, as an independent risk factor, directly causes cardiac damage and leads to diabetic cardiomyopathy. Apart fro