1985
DOI: 10.1007/bf00703134
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High prevalence of Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes among the offspring of conjugal Type 2 diabetic parents in India

Abstract: Summary. The prevalence of Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes among offspring of conjugal Type 2 diabetic parents in India was determined by performing oral glucose tolerance tests. Diabetes was present in 50% of offspring, and 12% had impaired glucose tolerance according to the National Diabetes Data Group criteria. Thus, 62% of all offspring had abnormal glucose tolerance tests. This is the highest prevalence rate for diabetes among offspring of conjugal diabetic parents and might represent an ethnic va… Show more

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“…About one-third of these patients had evidence of vertical transmission of diabetes through two or more generations and thus presumably had MODY on clinical grounds, although the genetics of MODY was unknown at that time. Due to the earlier onset of type 2 diabetes among Asian Indians, the conventional criteria of age of onset and family history might not differentiate MODY mutation carriers from early-onset type 2 diabetic patients in this age range (3,4). Therefore, examination at the molecular level gains importance.…”
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“…About one-third of these patients had evidence of vertical transmission of diabetes through two or more generations and thus presumably had MODY on clinical grounds, although the genetics of MODY was unknown at that time. Due to the earlier onset of type 2 diabetes among Asian Indians, the conventional criteria of age of onset and family history might not differentiate MODY mutation carriers from early-onset type 2 diabetic patients in this age range (3,4). Therefore, examination at the molecular level gains importance.…”
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“…Results in FCPD were compared with those found in South Indian subjects who either had Type 1 (insulin-dependent) or Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes to investigate a possible genetic link between these diseases and FCPD. The Type 2 diabetic population in South India provided new data in its own right, since genetic polymorphisms linked to this disease has not previously been sought in this ethnic group in which there is a high familial occurrence of diabetes [12].…”
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“…31 Higher prevalence of "asymptomatic" diabetes among the OCDP was observed on glucose tolerance testing. 32 Using oral glucose tolerance testing, Viswanathan et al 33 noted that 50% of the OCDP had overt diabetes and 12% had impaired glucose tolerance, and that 30% of the diabetic offspring developed the disease before age 40. The potential limitation of this study was that the ascertainment was based on family history.…”
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confidence: 99%