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Type 2 diabetes in East Asians: similarities and differences with populations in Europe and the United States

There is an epidemic of diabetes in Asia. Type 2 diabetes develops in East Asian patients at a lower mean body mass index (BMI) compared with those of European descent. At any given BMI, East Asians have a greater amount of body fat and a tendency to visceral adiposity. In Asian patients, diabetes d...

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Autores principales: Ma, Ronald CW, Chan, Juliana CN
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3708105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23551121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12098