Laughter lowered the increase in postprandial blood glucose [19]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1651-1652

  Hayashi, Keiko ^a,e   Hayashi, Takashi ^b   Iwanaga, Shizuko ^c   Kawai, Koichi ^c   Ishii, Hitoshi ^d   Shoji, Shin'ichi ^a   Murakami, Kazuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Foundation for Advancement of International Science   (Japan)

^c Kawai Clinic   (Japan)

^d TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMOR; LETTER; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POSTPRANDIAL STATE;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0042168661     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.26.5.1651     Document Type: Letter

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