Birth weight and the Metabolic Syndrome: Thrifty phenotype or thrifty genotype?

Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 88-93

  Stern, Michael P ^a   Bartley, Mary ^a   Duggirala, Ravindranath ^a   Bradshaw, Benjamin ^b  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Environmental correlations; Genetic correlations; Insulin resistance; Metabolic Syndrome

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; LEPTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 0034006683     PISSN: 15207552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-7560(200003/04)16:2<88::aid-dmrr81>3.0.co;2-m     Document Type: Article

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