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Kasper Broedbaek1, Linda Hilsted1

  • 1Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, 9 Blegdamsvej, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

Biomarkers in Medicine
|September 10, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
Type 1 diabetesType 2 diabetesbiomarkerscatestatinchromogranin Adiabetesgestational diabetesinsulin sensitivitypancreastatinβ-cell destruction

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