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The vitamin D receptor gene variant and physical activity predicts fasting glucose levels in healthy young men.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Jun 2003
Ortlepp J R, Metrikat J, Albrecht M, von Korff A, Hanrath P, Hoffmann R
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: Vitamin D can influence lipolysis and insulin secretion. A common genetic polymorphism of the vitamin D receptor (VDR), which has been found to be associated with bone mineral density, has been reported to be also associated with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). To test the influence of the VDR polymorphism on fasting glucose in healthy young men before the onset of Type 2 DM, we studied a homogeneous...
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