Prenatal exposure to bereavement and type-2 diabetes: a Danish longitudinal population based study.

BACKGROUND: The etiology of type-2 diabetes is only partly known, and a possible role of prenatal stress in programming offspring for insulin resistance has been suggested by animal models. Previously, we found an association between prenatal stress and type-1 diabetes. Here we examine the associati...

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Main Authors: Jasveer Virk, Jiong Li, Mogens Vestergaard, Carsten Obel, Jette Kolding Kristensen, Jørn Olsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3429491?pdf=render