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Familiality of metabolic abnormalities is dependent on age at onset and phenotype of the type 2 diabetic proband.
American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Dec 2003
Tripathy D, Lindholm E, Isomaa B, Saloranta C, Tuomi T, Groop L
Abstract excerpt
To determine the impact of a family history of the common form of type 2 diabetes and the phenotype of the proband on anthropometric and metabolic variables in normoglycemic first-degree relatives, we studied 2,100 first-degree relatives of patients with the common form of type 2 diabetes (FH+) and 388 subjects without a family history of diabetes (FH-). All subjects participated in an oral glucose tolerance test...
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