… I Reynisdottir, R Benediktsson, T Jonsdottir … - Nature genetics, 2007 - nature.com We conducted a genome-wide association study for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in
Icelandic cases and controls, and we found that a previously described variant
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DF Gudbjartsson, DO Arnar, A Helgadottir, S … - Nature, 2007 - nature.com Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia in
humans and is characterized by chaotic electrical activity of the atria 1 . It
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MCY Ng, KS Park, B Oh, CHT Tam, YM Cho, … - Diabetes, 2008 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS— We confirmed the associations of TCF7L2, SLC30A8, HHEX, CDKAL1,
CDKN2A/CDKN2B, IGF2BP2, and FTO with risk for type 2 diabetes, with odds ratios
ranging from 1.13 to 1.35 (1.3 × 10 −12 < P unadjusted < 0.016). In ... Cited by 51 - Related articles - All 4 versions
- ►endojournals.org MCY Ng, CHT Tam, VKL Lam, WY So, RCW … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2007 - Endocrine Soc Results: Two of the previously reported risk alleles at rs11196205 (C) and
rs7903146 (T) were rare in Chinese (0.013 and 0.024, respectively, in controls).
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X Yang, WY So, APS Kong, RCW Ma, GTC Ko … - The American Journal of Cardiology, 2008 - Elsevier There are no validated risk scores for predicting coronary heart disease (CHD)
in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study aimed to validate
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X Yang, WY So, PCY Tong, RCW Ma, APS … - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2008 - archinte.highwire.org Methods A prospective cohort of 7583 type 2 diabetic patients enrolled since
1995 were censored on July 30, 2005, or after 6 years of follow-up, whichever
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- ►canadianmedicaljournal.ca X Yang, WY So, GTC Ko, RCW Ma, APS Kong … - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2008 - Can Med Assoc Furthermore, the independent associations between LDL cho- lesterol level and
cancer in both the general population and in patients with type 2 diabetes have
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A Luk, JCN Chan - Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 2008 - Elsevier In this pandemic of diabetes and obesity, Asia will have the highest number of
affected people with the greatest increase in the young-to-middle aged group.
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K Miyake, W Yang, K Hara, K Yasuda, Y … - Journal of Human Genetics, 2009 - nature.com Journal of Human Genetics, official journal of the Japan Society of Human Genetics,
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- ►ecmaj.ca GTC Ko, WY So, PC Tong, WB Chan, X Yang, … - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2009 - ecmaj.ca Results: The mean age of the cohort was 54.4 (standard deviation 13.1) years,
and 56% were women. The mean duration of diabetes was 4.6 years (range 0–35.9
years). Of the 503 patients, 110 (21.9%) had a low C peptide level and 111 ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 12 versions
