Longitudinal hair chromium profiles of elderly subjects with normal glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes mellitus

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 94-104

  Štupar, Janez ^a   Vrtovec, Matjaž ^b   Dolinšek, Franci ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HAIR; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METAL METABOLISM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHROMIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HAIR; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; INSULIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33845231145     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.metabol.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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