1. (Journal Article): Genes Mediating Environment Interactions in Type 1 Diabetes

Biros E, Jordan MA, Baxter AG
 
ABSTRACT: The relative risk of type 1 (autoimmune) diabetes mellitus for a sibling of an affected patient is fifteen times that of the general population, indicating a strong genetic contrib...

2. (Journal Article): Type 2 Diabetes – Failure, Blame and Guilt in the Adoption of Insulin Therapy

Phillips P
 
ABSTRACT: Type 2 Diabetes is a progressive disease with an insidious onset, including decreased first-phase insulin secretion and mild forms of hyperinsulinemia caused by heterogenous factor...

3. (Journal Article): Diabetes mellitus: report of a WHO study group. WHO, Geneva.

World Health Organization
 
ABSTRACT: n/a

4. (Journal Article): Susceptibility gene discovery for common metabolic and endocrine traits

McCarthy MI
 
ABSTRACT: Almost all major causes of ill-health and premature death in human societies worldwide - including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and many infectious diseases - are, at l...

5. (Journal Article): Global and societal implications of the diabetes epidemic

Zimmet P, Alberti KG, Shaw J
 
ABSTRACT: Changes in human behaviour and lifestyle over the last century have resulted in a dramatic increase in the incidence of diabetes worldwide. The epidemic is chiefly of type 2 diabet...

6. (Journal Article): Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease. The incidence of myocardial infarction in white, South Asian, and Afro-Caribbean patients with type 2 diabetes (U.K. Prospective Diabetes Study 32)

No indication of authors
 
ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) by ethnicity in subjects with diabetes and to examine the effect of ethnicity, adjusting for differences in cardi...

7. (Journal Article): ACE gene insertion/deletion polymorphism associated with 1998 World Health Organization definition of metabolic syndrome in Chinese type 2 diabetic patients.

Lee YJ, Tsai JC

8. (Journal Article): Fine Needle Aspiration Diagnosis of Isolated Pancreatic Tuberculosis: A Case Report and Review of Literature

D'Cruz S, Sachdev A, Kaur L, Handa U, Bhalla A, Lehl SS
 
ABSTRACT: CONTEXT: Tuberculosis is a common disease in the developing world and its incidence is slowly increasing in developed countries where a resurgence has been seen subsequent to the A...

9. (Journal Article): Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and its Complications: From the Molecular Biology to the Clinical Practice

Malecki MT
 
ABSTRACT: Introduction: Probably the most urgent problem in the field of diabetology, and one of the most important in XXI. century medicine, is an epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus. ...

10. (Journal Article): Genetic variation in the gene encoding calpain-10 is associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Horikawa Y, Oda N, Cox NJ, Li X, Orho-Melander M, Hara M, Hinokio Y, Lindner TH, Mashima H, Schwarz PE, del Bosque-Plata L, Horikawa Y, Oda Y, Yoshiuchi I, Colilla S, Polonsky KS, Wei S, Concannon P, Iwasaki N, Schulze J, Baier LJ, Bogardus C, Groop L, Boerwinkle E, Hanis CL, Bell GI
 
ABSTRACT: Type 2 or non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is the most common form of diabetes worldwide, affecting approximately 4% of the world's adult population. It is multifact...