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Please pass the chips: genomic insights into obesity and diabetes.
The Journal of nutrition - 1 Aug 2001
Nadler S T, Attie A D
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Type 2 diabetes mellitus is an increasingly common disorder of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Approximately 16 million individuals in the United States have diabetes, and 800,000 new cases are identified each year. Two important characteristics of this disease are insulin resistance, the failure of peripheral tissues, including liver, muscle, and adipose tissue, to respond to physiologic doses of insulin, and...
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