Obesity and Diabetes by Fredrik Karpe

Posted: 21 Jun 2011

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Professor Fredrik Karpe explores the links between obesity and diabetes.

Prof. Fredrik Karpe initiated the Oxford Biobank for prospective genetic epidemiological research. Integrative physiological and genomic approaches are used to study lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Prof. Karpe also studies the links between obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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