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01-11-2013 | Letter
Impact of impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance on the incidence of diabetes in a Japanese cohort
Authors:
Keishi Yamauchi, Toru Aizawa
Published in:
Diabetologia
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Issue 11/2013
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Excerpt
To the Editor: On the basis of the data obtained in a longitudinal study of 3,059 Japanese participants without diabetes at baseline, Morimoto et al [
1] concluded that impaired insulin secretion (IIS) had a greater impact than insulin resistance (IR) on the incidence of type 2 diabetes in a Japanese population. We think that it would have been better to pay slightly more attention to the method of analysis and interpretation of the data, and that this might have significantly raised the impact of the article. …