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Excess maternal transmission of type 2 diabetes. The Northern California Kaiser Permanente Diabetes Registry.
1 Jun 1999
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To assess excess maternal transmission of type 2 diabetes in a multiethnic cohort. Previous studies have reported higher prevalence of diabetes among mothers of probands with type 2 diabetes than among fathers. This analysis is vulnerable to biases, and this pattern has not been observed in all populations or races. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: We assessed evidence for excess maternal transmission...
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