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High-Risk Populations: The Pimas of Arizona and Mexico.
Current obesity reports - 1 Mar 2015
Schulz Leslie O, Chaudhari Lisa S
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of this review is first, to broadly summarize the long-term commitment that began in 1965 to studying type 2 diabetes and obesity through the cooperation of the Pima Indians of Arizona, and second, to discuss the investigations with the Pima Indians of Mexico that started in 1991. The later studies emphasize gene-environment interactions in the pathogenesis of these metabolic disorders. Through the...
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