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Associations of age with serum insulin, proinsulin and the proinsulin-to-insulin ratio: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Insulin responses and insulin levels seem to decline with age. However, the question of beta cell impairment attributable to ageing has been sparsely addressed in population-based studies. Non-fasting insulin levels are determined by the ambient degree of insulin resistance together with...

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Autores principales: Bryhni, Bente, Arnesen, Egil, Jenssen, Trond G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020169/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21162746
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6823-10-21