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Islet cell antibody-positive versus -negative phenotypic type 2 diabetes in youth: does the oral glucose tolerance test distinguish between the two?
Diabetes care - 1 Mar 2010
Tfayli Hala, Bacha Fida, Gungor Neslihan, Arslanian Silva
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OBJECTIVE Using the clamp technique, youths with a clinical diagnosis of type 2 diabetes (CDx-type 2 diabetes) and positive pancreatic autoantibodies (Ab(+)) were shown to have severe impairment in insulin secretion and less insulin resistance than their peers with negative antibodies (Ab(-)). In this study, we investigated whether oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)-derived indexes of insulin secretion and...
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