Investigation of insulin resistance in narcoleptic patients: dependent or independent of body mass index?

BACKGROUND: Narcolepsy is a severe sleep-wake cycle disorder resulting in most cases from a lack of orexin, the energy balance-regulating hormone. Narcoleptic patients have been reported to suffer from an excess morbidity of Type 2 diabetes, even after correction for their often elevated body mass i...

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Autores principales: Engel, Alice, Helfrich, Jana, Manderscheid, Nina, Musholt, Petra B, Forst, Thomas, Pfützner, Andreas, Dahmen, Norbert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3148926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21822386
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S18455

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