The accelerator hypothesis: weight gain as the missing link between Type I and Type II diabetes

By T. Wilkin. Diabetologia, 2001

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Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Surgery

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• Chapter 1: Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes (2010, neutral): “tally triggered autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells occurs against the background of genetic risk,(6) although alternate hypotheses exist.(7,8) It follows that global variation in the incidence, prevalence, and temporal trends in T1D are reported.”
• Obesity in autoimmune diseases: not a passive bystander. (2014, background): “ator Hypothesis puts overweightness at the heart of the pathogenesis of T1D in a continuum with T2D [229].”
• Mechanism linking diabetes mellitus and obesity (2014, background): “To date, the exact mechanism and relationship between type 1 diabetes and obesity remains inconclusive and needs further explanation.(21)”