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Maternal diabetes, programming of beta-cell disorders and intergenerational risk of type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes & metabolism - 1 Nov 2014
Chavey A, Ah Kioon M-D, Bailbé D, Movassat J, Portha B
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A substantial body of evidence suggests that an abnormal intra-uterine milieu elicited by maternal metabolic disturbances as diverse as malnutrition, placental insufficiency, diabetes and obesity may be able to programme susceptibility of the foetus to later develop chronic degenerative diseases such as obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes (T2D). As insulin-producing cells have been...
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