H Parikh, L Groop - Reviews in Endocrine & Metabolic Disorders, 2004 - Springer About 150 million people suffer from type 2 diabetes in the world today and it
has been predicted that this num- ber will be doubled within 15 years [1]. It is
no longer a disease of the elderly, age at onset has decreased with the ... Cited by 62 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►angrylapdog.com P Saenger, P Czernichow, I Hughes, EO … - Endocrine reviews, 2007 - edrv.endojournals.org.p.angrylapdog.com Depending on the definitions used, up to 10% of all live-born neonates are small
for gestational age (SGA). Although the vast majority of these children show
catch-up growth by 2 yr of age, one in 10 does not. It is increasingly ... Cited by 54 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►mcmaster.ca [PDF] AM Prentice, P Rayco-Solon, SE Moore - Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 2007 - Cambridge Univ Press Few researchers would dispute that the pandemic of obesity is caused by a
profound mismatch between humanity's present environmental circumstances and
those that have moulded evolutionary selection. This concept was first ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - All 7 versions
KK Ong, CJ Petry, BJ Barratt, S Ring, HJ … - Diabetes, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc Polymorphism of the insulin gene (INS) variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR;
class I or class III alleles) locus has been associated with adult diseases and
with birth size. Therefore, this variant is a potential contributory factor ... Cited by 48 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
DB Dunger, CJ Petry, KK Ong - Horm Res, 2006 - content.karger.com Size at birth is said to be a highly heritable trait, with an estimated 30-70%
of the variability a result of genetics. Data from family studies may be
confounded, however, by potential interactions between fetal genes and the ... Cited by 45 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►nih.gov RM Freathy, MN Weedon, A Bennett, E … - The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2007 - Elsevier The role of genes in normal birth-weight variation is poorly understood, and it
has been suggested that the genetic component of fetal growth is small. Type 2
diabetes genes may influence birth weight through maternal genotype, by ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
AJ Bennett, U Sovio, A Ruokonen, H … - Diabetes, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc Page 1. Brief Genetics Report Variation at the Insulin Gene VNTR (Variable
Number Tandem Repeat) Polymorphism and Early Growth Studies ... Cited by 35 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►endojournals.org S Mitchell, AT Hattersley, B Knight, T Turner … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2004 - Endocrine Soc Reduced fetal growth is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and
cardiovascular disorders in adulthood (5). The fetal insulin hypothesis
postulates that this association could be due in part to fetal genes as ... Cited by 35 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
C Levy-Marchal, P Czernichow - Horm Res, 2006 - content.karger.com The metabolic and cardiovascular complications associated with in-utero
undernutrition have been identified during the past 10 years. Reduced fetal
growth is independently associated with an increased risk of development of ... Cited by 34 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
GD Smith, J Sterne, P Tynelius, DA Lawlor, … - Epidemiology, 2005 - journals.lww.com Intrauterine development has been associated with subse- quent blood pressure,
insulin resistance, and cardiovascular disease in a large number of studies
carried out in various contexts.1–3 These associations have been ... Cited by 33 - Related articles - All 7 versions
