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Type 2 diabetes across generations: from pathophysiology to prevention and management.
Lancet (London, England) - 9 Jul 2011
Nolan Christopher J, Damm Peter, Prentki Marc
Abstract excerpt
Type 2 diabetes is now a pandemic and shows no signs of abatement. In this Seminar we review the pathophysiology of this disorder, with particular attention to epidemiology, genetics, epigenetics, and molecular cell biology. Evidence is emerging that a substantial part of diabetes susceptibility is acquired early in life, probably owing to fetal or neonatal programming via epigenetic phenomena. Maternal and early...
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