Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus: the thrifty phenotype hypothesis.

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Published in Diabetologia on July 01, 1992

Authors

C N Hales1, D J Barker

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1: Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

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