Low Serum Creatinine Is Associated With Type 2 Diabetes in Morbidly Obese

http://www.diabetes.org/news-research/news/research-in-the-news/low-serum-creatinine-is.html

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Previous research has found an association between low skeletal muscle
mass and insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome‚ as well as an
association between low serum creatinine and type 2 diabetes.

Serum creatinine may be a surrogate marker of muscle mass‚ which
Norwegian researchers attempted to validate in a cross–sectional study
of approximately 1‚000 morbidly obese Caucasian patients.
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