Lower insulin sensitivity remains a feature of children born very preterm.

Valentina Chiavaroli José G B DerraikThilini N JayasingheRaquel O RodriguesJanene B BiggsMalcolm BattinPaul L HofmanJustin Martin O'SullivanWayne S Cutfield

Published in: Pediatric diabetes (2020)

Lower insulin sensitivity remains a feature of children born very preterm, despite improvements in neonatal intensive care. As reported in our original study, our findings suggest the defect in insulin action in prepubertal children born very pretermis primarily peripheral and not hepatic.

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