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Masking of diabetic phenotype on a low-energy diet despite persistence of impaired insulin response.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 1 Oct 1991
Levy J C, Ward G M, Naylor B A, Williamson D H, Turner R C
Abstract excerpt
Type 2 diabetes has been postulated to be a "thrifty genotype" that aids fuel conservation; to investigate this hypothesis, type 2 diabetic and nondiabetic subjects, normal weight and obese, were studied after both 6 days on a 700-calorie diet and 6 days on a 2,800-calorie diet. On 2,800 calories per day, the median basal plasma glucose was raised in diabetics compared with nondiabetic subjects (median, 5.5 and...
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