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Insulinopenic Diabetes in Africa
- Source :
- BMJ. 1:773-776
- Publication Year :
- 1973
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 1973.
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Abstract
- The high proportion of unrefined carbohydrates (maize meal) in the diet of Africans could be responsible for their low insulin secretion. The consequent insulinopenia in the general African population may explain the comparative rarity of typical non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and also the virtual absence of coronary heart disease. Changes in growth hormone secretion and in serum lipids, known to be associated with diabetes in Europeans, are also found in African patients.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Zimbabwe
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Blood lipids
Coronary Disease
Internal medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Insulin Secretion
Diabetes Mellitus
Dietary Carbohydrates
medicine
Humans
Insulin
General Environmental Science
Glucose tolerance test
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
General Engineering
Fasting
Papers and Originals
General Medicine
Glucose Tolerance Test
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Lipids
Coronary heart disease
Growth hormone secretion
Maize meal
Europe
Endocrinology
African population
Growth Hormone
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Female
Edible Grain
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14685833 and 09598138
- Volume :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8adf16029b1e0435f9636d9f4b46b057