Increased risk of type 2 diabetes in elderly twins

Diabetes

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1350-1355

  Poulsen, Pernille ^a   Grunnet, Louise G ^a   Pilgaard, Kasper ^a   Storgaard, Heidi ^a   Alibegovic, Amra ^a   Sonne, Mette P ^b   Carstensen, Bendix ^a   Beck Nielsen, Henning ^c   Vaag, Allan ^a  

^a STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TWINS;

AGED; BIRTH WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SPOUSES; TIME FACTORS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 66649108800     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db08-1714     Document Type: Article

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