- ►nih.gov S Puppala, GD Dodd, S Fowler, R Arya, J … - The American Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier Gallbladder disease (GBD) is one of the major digestive diseases. Its risk factors include age, sex,
obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome (MS). The prevalence of GBD is high in minority
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in Chinese (0.013 and 0.024, respectively, in controls). Rs11196205 was associated with T2D [odds
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- ►endojournals.org SM Clee, AD Attie - Endocrine reviews, 2007 - Endocrine Soc Inbred mouse strains provide genetic diversity comparable to that of the human population. Like
humans, mice have a wide range of diabetes-related phenotypes. The inbred mouse strains differ in
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M Bitsori, A Kafatos - Acta Paediatrica, 2005 - interscience.wiley.com The dysmetabolic syndrome, consisting of dyslipidaemia, hypertension, hyperinsulinaemia and central
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GTC Ko, CS Cockram, CC Chow, VTF Yeung, WB … - Diabetes research and …, 2006 - Elsevier In this report, we aimed to examine the impact of the new International Diabetes Federation (IDF)
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I Kolčić, A Vorko-Jović, B Salzer, M Smoljanović, J Kern … - croat Med J, 2006 - hrcak.srce.hr Results A total of 343 (34%) examinees met criteria of the metabolic syndrome diagnosis, with
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SK Das, SC Elbein - Current Diabetes Reports, 2007 - Springer The unbiased approach of genome-wide linkage analysis has shown evidence for linkage of type 2
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