Article
[Type 2 diabetes: journey in the heart of a complex disease].
Revue medicale de Liege - 1 Jan 2000
Scheen A J, Paquot N
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is rapidly growing worldwide and this metabolic disease nowadays represents a major public health concern. Besides the effects of aging, such a progression results from the interaction of several phenomena among which (1) a rather common genetic (polygenic) predisposing pattern, (2) epigenetic mechanisms, at least partially linked to nutritional disturbances during gestation...
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