Short leg length, a marker of early childhood deprivation, is associated with metabolic disorders underlying type 2 diabetes: The PROMISE cohort study

Diabetes Care

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3599-3606

  Johnston, Luke W ^a   Harris, Stewart B ^b   Retnakaran, Ravi ^a   Gerstein, Hertzel C ^c   Zinman, Bernard ^a,d   Hamilton, Jill ^a,e   Hanley, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CELL FUNCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY CHILDHOOD DEPRIVATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HISPANIC; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INSULIN SENSITIVITY INDEX; LEG LENGTH; LEG TO HEIGHT RATIO; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; RATING SCALE; SEX; SHORT LEG LENGTH; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CANADA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

INSULIN;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891890772     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc13-0254     Document Type: Article

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