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Intralipid triglyceride and oral glucose tolerance
The inter-relation between hypertriglyceridaemia and glucose intolerance has been studied experimentally in fifteen male subjects by measuring the effect of acute elevation of plasma triglyceride (injection of...
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Tenth Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Worsening to diabetes in men with impaired glucose tolerance (“borderline diabetes”)
Two hundred and four men with impaired glucose tolerance (borderline diabetes) discovered in a screening examination have been observed for five years and repeated tests of glucose tolerance performed. By pre-...
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The dynamic neck-eye reflex in mammals
Stimulation of cervical proprioceptors by torsion of the neck results in movement of the eyes. The pathways of this neck-eye reflex have been identified electrophysiologically, and in individuals with vestibul...
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Interrelationships of microangiopathy, plasma glucose and other risk factors in 3583 diabetic patients: A multinational study
In a multinational study, fasting plasma glucose values in 3583 diabetic patients, aged 34–56 years, were related to the characteristics of these subjects and to the presence and severity of microangiopathy as...
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Diabetes mortality: New light on an underestimated public health problem
Mortality from diabetes is underestimated four- to fivefold by methods of analysis of death certification data which use only underlying cause of death. This problem is partially overcome by coding all conditi...
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Head movements during optokinetic stimulation in the alert rabbit
Pigmented rabbits with their heads free to move about the vertical axis were seated inside a rotating optokinetic drum in order to evoke the optocollic reflex (OCR). At drum velocities below 5°/s, head movemen...
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International variations in mortality among diabetic patients: the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetics
Mortality among 4740 diabetic men and women aged 35–55 years participating in the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetics has been studied. Ten of the original centres (Warsaw, Berlin, Havana,...
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A prospective study of mortality among middle-aged diabetic patients (the London cohort of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetics) I: causes and death rates
The 497 members of the London Cohort of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetics have been followed for mortality from 1975 to 1987. During this period 92 patients died. The most common cau...
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A prospective study of mortality among middle-aged diabetic patients (the London cohort of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetics) II: associated risk factorin
Potential risk factors have been examined for association with mortality over a 10–12 year follow-up of the patients of the London Cohort of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetics (aged 3...
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Incidence of macrovascular disease in diabetes mellitus: the London cohort of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetics
We report on the incidence of new macrovascular disease among the 497 members of the London Cohort of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetics (aged 35–54 years at recruitment) over a mean ...
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Risk factors for macrovascular disease in diabetes mellitus: the London follow-up to the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetics
We have examined the relationship between baseline variables and the incidence of new macrovascular complications amongst the 497 members of the London cohort of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease...
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Blood pressure, retinopathy and urinary albumin excretion in IDDM: the EURODIAB IDDM Complications Study
Several studies have shown an association between blood pressure and nephropathy, but few have been large enough to examine whether, or how, this relation is influenced by retinopathy. We have therefore examin...
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Is autonomic neuropathy a risk factor for severe hypoglycaemia? The EURODIAB IDDM Complications Study
The hypothesis that diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy are at increased risk of severe hypoglycaemia was examined in an epidemiological study of over 3000 IDDM patients in Europe (EURODIAB IDDM Compl...
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Prevalence of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and its relation to glycaemic control and potential risk factors: the EURODIAB IDDM Complications Study
The EURODIAB IDDM Complications Study involved the examination of 3250 randomly selected insulin-dependent diabetic patients, from 31 centres in 16 European countries. Part of the examination included an asse...
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Fibrinogen and von Willebrand factor in IDDM: relationships to lipid vascular risk factors, blood pressure, glycaemic control and urinary albumin excretion rate: the EURODIAB IDDM complications study
The interrelationships between fibrinogen, von Willebrand factor, a marker of vascular endothelial cell damage, and serum lipids were explored in well-characterised subjects with insulin-dependent diabetes me...
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Relation of fibre intake to HbA1c and the prevalence of severe ketoacidosis and severe hypoglycaemia
The effect of dietary fibre intake on glycaemic control is still controversial. This study analysed the intake of natural dietary fibre in patients with Type I diabetes mellitus enrolled in the EURODIAB IDDM ...
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The relation between QTc interval prolongation and diabetic complications. The EURODIAB IDDM Complication Study Group
The prevalence of QT interval prolongation is higher in people with diabetes and its complications. Sudden death has been reported as a common cause of death in insulin-dependent diabetic patients affected by...
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35th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Different risk factors of microangiopathy in patients with Type I diabetes mellitus of short versus long duration. The EURODIAB IDDM Complications Study
Aims/hypothesis. To identify factors associated with early development of and late protection from microvascular complications in subjects with Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus.¶Metho...