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Endocrinology

the hypothesis that poor fetal and infant nutrition programs metabolism toward thrift, raising later risk of type 2 diabetes.

In endocrinology, thrifty phenotype refers to the hypothesis that poor fetal and infant nutrition programs metabolism toward thrift, raising later risk of type 2 diabetes. This meaning comes from Hales (1992) in Diabetologia.[1]

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hypothesis2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs metabolism3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs phenotype4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Hales, C. N., & Barker, D. J. P. (1992). Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus: the thrifty phenotype hypothesis. Diabetologia, 35(7), 595-601. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00400248

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