High white blood cell count is associated with a worsening of insulin sensitivity and predicts the development of type 2 diabetes

Diabetes

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 455-461

  Vozarova, Barbora ^a,b   Weyer, Christian ^a   Lindsay, Robert S ^a   Pratley, Richard E ^a   Bogardus, Clifton ^a   Antonio Tataranni, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST;

EID: 0036066485     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.51.2.455     Document Type: Article

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