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First-phase insulin response in young healthy children at genetic and immunological risk for Type I diabetes.
Diabetologia - 1 Dec 2002
Keskinen P, Korhonen S, Kupila A, Veijola R, Erkkilä S, Savolainen H, Arvilommi P, Simell T, Ilonen J, Knip M, Simell O
Abstract excerpt
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: A reduced first-phase insulin response to intravenous glucose is perceived as a sign of far-advanced deterioration of beta-cell function during the development of Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, but data on insulin responses at the onset of diabetes-related autoimmunity are lacking. We studied the first-phase insulin responses of small children soon after observed seroconversion to...
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