The metabolic syndrome: from inherited survival trait to a health care problem.

doi:10.1055/s-0029-1211799

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The metabolic syndrome: from inherited survival trait to a health care problem.

Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association - 1 Jan 1997

Colagiuri S, Brand Miller J C

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A critical role is proposed for the quantity and quality of dietary carbohydrate in the pathogenesis of the insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia which characterise the Metabolic Syndrome. We propose that an insulin-resistant genotype evolved to provide survival and reproductive advantages for...

Topics

Blood Glucose
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Diabetic Angiopathies
Dietary Carbohydrates
Genetic Variation
Genotype
Glucose Tolerance Test
Health Status
Humans
Hyperinsulinism
Hypertension
Insulin Resistance
Syndrome

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PMID: 9288547
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1211799

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