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    The combined diabetes and renal control trial (C-DIRECT) - a feasibility randomised controlled trial to evaluate outcomes in multi-morbid patients with diabetes and on dialysis using a mixed methods approach

    This cluster randomised controlled trial set out to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of the “Combined Diabetes and Renal Control Trial” (C-DIRECT) intervention, a nurse-led intervention based on m...

    K. Griva, M. Rajeswari, M. Nandakumar, E. Y. H. Khoo, V. Y. W. Lee in BMC Nephrology (2019)

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    Smaller size of high metabolic rate organs explains lower resting energy expenditure in Asian-Indian Than Chinese men

    In Singapore, the obesity prevalence is disproportionately higher in the Asian-Indians and Malays than the Chinese. Lower resting energy expenditure (REE) may be a contributory factor.

    L L T Song, K Venkataraman, P Gluckman, Y S Chong in International Journal of Obesity (2016)

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    Ethnic differences in insulin sensitivity and beta-cell function among Asian men

    Lean Asian Indians are less insulin sensitive compared with Chinese and Malays, but the pancreatic beta-cell function among these ethnic groups has yet to be studied in depth. We aimed to study beta-cell funct...

    V M H Tan, Y S Lee, K Venkataraman, E Y H Khoo, E S Tai, Y S Chong in Nutrition & Diabetes (2015)

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    Effects of exenatide on circulating glucose, insulin, glucagon, cortisol and catecholamines in healthy volunteers during exercise

    Exenatide, a glucagon like peptide-1 agonist, is a treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus that stimulates insulin and suppresses glucagon secretion in a glucose-dependent manner. By contrast, during aerobic ex...

    E. Y. H. Khoo, J. Wallis, K. Tsintzas, I. A. Macdonald, P. Mansell in Diabetologia (2010)