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Diet, Cardiometabolic Factors and Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Role of Genetics.
Current diabetes reviews - 1 Jan 2016
Marcadenti Aline
Abstract excerpt
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a highly prevalent condition and is associated with a number of metabolic risk factors such as excess of weight, impaired lipid profile and higher levels of blood pressure. As other complex diseases, it is strongly related to an environmental component such as sedentarism and unhealthy diet, and also to a genetic component. A cluster of variants (polymorphisms) in a large number...
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