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- who: Julia H. Goedecke from the Research Council, Cape Town, South University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South have published the research: Pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africans, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: The authors propose that among Black Africans from hyperinsulinaemia due to a combination of both increased insulin secretion and reduced hepatic insulin clearance is the primary defect which promotes obesity and insulin resistance exacerbating the hyperinsulinaemia and eventually leading to beta cell failure and type 2 diabetes. The study showed that beta cell failure rather than insulin resistance was the . . .
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