ea0009p22 | Diabetes and metabolism | BES2005
Massey K
, Laws J
, Perkins K
, Beattles S
, Filby L
, Hatton E
, Lomax M
, Haskard D
, Buckingham J
, Jarvelin M
, Corson A
, Lean J
, Clarke L
Epidemiological studies have suggested that in man low birth weight followed by rapid catch-up growth dramatically increase the risk of adulthood diabetes and metabolic syndrome. This experiment investigated the effect of a high fat, high cholesterol post-weaning diet on blood glucose levels of low (L) and normal (N) birth weight pigs.Low (L: <10thpercentile; n=6) and normal (N: 40th - 60th percentile; n=12) birth weig...