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Telomere length attrition, a marker of biological senescence, is inversely correlated with triglycerides and cholesterol in South Asian males with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Experimental diabetes research - 1 Jan 2012
Harte Alison L, da Silva Nancy F, Miller Michelle A, Cappuccio Francesco P, Kelly Ann, O'Hare Joseph P, Barnett Anthony H, Al-Daghri Nasser M, Al-Attas Omar, Alokail Majed, Sabico Shaun, Tripathi Gyanendra, Bellary Srikanth, Kumar Sudhesh, McTernan Philip G
Abstract excerpt
South Asians have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) than white Caucasians, for a given BMI. Premature biological ageing, assessed by reduction in telomere length (TL), may be mediated by factors resulting from altered metabolic profiles associated w...
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