The Insulin Resistance Epidemic in India: Fetal Origins, Later Lifestyle, or Both?
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nutrition Reviews
- Vol. 59 (1), 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2001.tb01898.x
Abstract
In India there is a rapidly escalating epidemic of insulin resistance syndrome (diabetes and coronary heart disease). Contribution of genes and envirKeywords
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