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Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young: An Overview with Focus on the Middle East.
Current molecular medicine - 1 Jan 2017
Taneera J, Mussa B, Saber-Ayad M, Dhaiban S, Aljaibeji H, Sulaiman N
Abstract excerpt
Today, there are more than 32 million patients with diabetes in the Middle East (ME), the number is expected to double by 2040. In contrast to Europe and North America and despite the high prevalence of diabetes in ME, epidemiological data about incident and types of diabetes in the region is very limited. Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) is a subtype of monogenic diabetes representing 2-5% of all...
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