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As a significant proportion of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus display few of the classical risk factors, much work has centred on finding biomarkers not associated with classical risk factors in order to improve the risk prediction for the disease. In their commentary, Karakas and Koenig discuss research by Ha and colleagues, which found a cluster of six metabolites which could improve diagnostic power.

Full article: Ha et al. (2012) Clinical Endocrinology 76 674–682 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04244.x

Commentary: Karakas and Koenig (2012) Clinical Endocrinology 76 615–616 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04298.x

Metabolite profiling in diabetes

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