Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 65, Issue 2 , Pages 151-157 , August 2004

In an Aboriginal birth cohort, only child size and not birth size, predicts insulin and glucose concentrations in childhood

,Revised 10 December 2003 ,Accepted 15 December 2003.

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☆ Data previously presented at the Third World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and its Complications with the Fourth Hong Kong Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Factors held in Hong Kong, September 29–October 1, 2002 [1].

PII: S0168-8227(04)00002-6

doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2003.12.006

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 65, Issue 2 , Pages 151-157 , August 2004

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