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Sex hormones, obesity and type 2 diabetes: is there a link?

An imbalance in sex hormones has an important impact on type 2 diabetes (T2DM) mainly through the involvement of visceral adipose tissue. Androgens have an interesting sex-dimorphic association with T2DM, since hyperandrogenism in females and hypogonadism in males are risk factors for T2DM. Thus, tr...

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Autores principales: Gambineri, Alessandra, Pelusi, Carla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bioscientifica Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6320346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30533003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EC-18-0450