Type 2 Diabetes
Subtitle: Prediction and Prevention
Publisher: Wiley
Published: May 7, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780471985952
Subjects: Diabetes; Risk factors; Medical; Preventive Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Prevention; Diseases - General; Endocrinology & Metabolism; Genetics; Health & Fitness-Diseases - General; Medical / Endocrinology & Metabolism; Medical-Genetics; Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin; Genetic aspects; Non-insulin-dependent diabetes
First sentence: The National Diabetes Data Group (NDDG) and the World Heath Organization (WHO) classifications of diabetes in the 1980s clarified research into the aetiology of diabetes by separating primary diabetes into insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (or type 1 diabetes) and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (or type 2 diabetes).