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Fetal determinants of type 2 diabetes.
Current drug targets - 1 Aug 2007
Reusens Brigitte, Ozanne Susan E, Remacle Claude
Abstract excerpt
Type 2 diabetes, which has dramatically increased during the last decade normally results from a combination of pancreatic beta cell dysfunction and insulin resistance. One of the most recent risk factors identified for type 2 diabetes is a sub-optimal fetal and neonatal environment. Numerous human epidemiological studies worldwide have highlighted that a disturbed nutritional environment of the fetus, either...
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