Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 77, Issue 1 , Pages 62-69 , July 2007

Ethnic differences in C-peptide secretion but not in non-esterified fatty acid metabolism in pre-menopausal women with and without abdominal obesity

  • Manja Reimann

      Affiliations

    • School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa. Tel.: +27 18 299 2435; fax: +27 18 299 2433.
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  • Aletta E. Schutte

      Affiliations

    • School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa
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  • Hugo W. Huisman

      Affiliations

    • School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa
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  • Rudolph Schutte

      Affiliations

    • School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa
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  • Johannes M. van Rooyen

      Affiliations

    • School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa
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  • Leoné Malan

      Affiliations

    • School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa
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  • Nico T. Malan

      Affiliations

    • School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa
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  • Peter E.H. Schwarz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Endocrinopathies and Metabolic Diseases, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Received 7 August 2006 ,Accepted 11 October 2006.

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☆ This project was supported by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF GUN number 2054068), Medical Research Council, Research Focus Area 9.1 of the North-West University and by the Dresden University of Technology funding grant, Med Drive.

PII: S0168-8227(06)00476-1

doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2006.10.010

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 77, Issue 1 , Pages 62-69 , July 2007

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