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Cystatin C and Risk of Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome - Biomarker and Genotype Association Analyses.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Magnusson Martin, Molvin John, Engström Gunnar, Svensson-Färbom Patrik, Persson Margaretha, Christensson Anders, Nilsson Peter, Melander Olle
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We recently reported a relationship between plasma levels of cystatin C and incidence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) among the first 2,369 subjects who participated in the re-examination study of the population-based Malmö and Diet Cancer Cardiovascular cohort (MDC-CC-re-exam). In this study we aimed to replicate these results and also investigate if cystatin C was causally associated with MetS and...
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