Insulin Response in Relation to Insulin Sensitivity: An Appropriate β-Cell Response in Black South African Women
Response to Joffe and Distiller
- Julia H. Goedecke, PHD1,2,
- Estelle V. Lambert, PHD1,
- Naomi S. Levitt, MB, CHB, MD3,
- Tommy Olsson, MD4,
- Jonathan R. Seckl, MB, PHD5,
- Brian R. Walker, MD5 and
- Steven E. Kahn, MB, CHB6
- 1University of Cape Town/South African Medical Research Council Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;
- 2South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa;
- 3Endocrine Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;
- 4Department of Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;
- 5Endocrinology Unit, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland;
- 6Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Puget Sound Health Care System and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
- Corresponding author: Julia H. Goedecke, julia.goedecke{at}uct.ac.za.
We are in agreement with Joffe and Distiller (1) that the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in black South Africans cannot be inferred from limited …
