The thrifty phenotype hypothesis: How does it look after 5 years?

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 189-195

  Hales, C N ^a   Desai, M ^a   Ozanne, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

genetic basis; maternal diet; non insulin dependent diabetes; nutrition; thrifty phenotype hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; GENETICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RACE; RAT; REVIEW; TWINS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; RATS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030979984     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9136(199703)14:3<189::AID-DIA325>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Review

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