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Article: Mayo Clinic details research in diabetes risk factors.(Report)
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- Diabetes Week
- Article date:
- March 9, 2009
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Research findings, 'Relationship between clinical features and gastric emptying disturbances in diabetes mellitus,' are discussed in a new report. "Gastric emptying (GE) may be delayed or rapid in diabetes mellitus. We sought to ascertain differences in risk factors or associated features (i.e. diabetic 'phenotype') among patients with diabetes who have rapid, slow or normal GE," scientists writing in the journal Clinical Endocrinology report (see also Diabetes Risk Factors).
"From a database of patients in whom gastrointestinal transit was assessed by scintigraphy, we compared the diabetic phenotype in diabetic patients with rapid, slow and normal GE. Of 129 ...