Adult glucose metabolism in extremely birthweight-discordant monozygotic twins

Diabetologia

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3204-3212

  Frost, M ^a,b   Petersen, I ^a   Brixen, K ^b   Beck Nielsen, H ^b   Holst, J J ^c   Christiansen, L ^a   Hojlund K ^b   Christensen, K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Birthweight; Fetal programming; Incretin hormones; Oral glucose tolerance test; Twins; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; GASTRIC INHIBITORY POLYPEPTIDE; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1; GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL FUNCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN RESPONSE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID DISEASE; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; C-PEPTIDE; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE 1; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84868213923     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: 14320428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-012-2695-x     Document Type: Article

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