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The parental phenotype of diabetes, but not of essential hypertension, is linked to the development of metabolic syndrome in Mexican individuals.
Acta diabetologica - 1 Jan 2001
Rodríguez-Morán M, Guerrero-Romero F
Abstract excerpt
Studies on the role of parental history on the risk of developing metabolic syndrome (MS) show inconsistent data that may depend on misclassification of the parental history. Confirming carefully the parental phenotype (PF) of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and essential hypertension (EH) of participants' parents, we determined the relationship between PF of either DM or EH and the risk of developing MS in Mexican...
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