Low birth weight is associated with NIDDM in discordant monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs

Diabetologia

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 439-446

  Poulsen, P ^a,b   Vaag, A A ^a   Kyvik, K O ^b   Moller Jensen D ^a   Beck Nielsen, H ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

birth weight; intrauterine malnutrition; non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus; twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; BIRTH ORDER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY HEIGHT; C-PEPTIDE; CHOLESTEROL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROINSULIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRIGLYCERIDES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030980023     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001250050698     Document Type: Article

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