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The many faces of diabetes: a disease with increasing heterogeneity.
Lancet (London, England) - 22 Mar 2014
Tuomi Tiinamaija, Santoro Nicola, Caprio Sonia, Cai Mengyin, Weng Jianping, Groop Leif
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Diabetes is a much more heterogeneous disease than the present subdivision into types 1 and 2 assumes; type 1 and type 2 diabetes probably represent extremes on a range of diabetic disorders. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes seem to result from a collision between genes and environment. Although genetic predisposition establishes susceptibility, rapid changes in the environment (ie, lifestyle factors) are the most...
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