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Blood Viscosity and Hematocrit as Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

Several lines of evidence support the notion that elevated blood viscosity may predispose to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus by limiting delivery of glucose, insulin, and oxygen to metabolically active tissues. To test this hypothesis, the authors analyzed longitudinal data on 12,881...

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Autores principales: Tamariz, Leonardo J., Young, J. Hunter, Pankow, James S., Yeh, Hsin-Chieh, Schmidt, Maria Ines, Astor, Brad, Brancati, Frederick L.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18931370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwn243