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Ethnic differences in association of high body mass index with early onset of Type 1 diabetes – Arab ethnicity as case study

OBJECTIVE: The “accelerator hypothesis” predicts early onset of Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in heavier children. Studies testing direction of correlation between body mass index (BMI) and age at onset of T1D in different continental populations have reported differing results–inverse, direct, and neutral....

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Autores principales: Channanath, Arshad M., Elkum, Naser, Al-Abdulrazzaq, Dalia, Tuomilehto, Jaakko, Shaltout, Azza, Thanaraj, Thangavel Alphonse
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5391107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28406962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175728