Erschienen in:
01.02.2005 | Letters
To the Editor
verfasst von:
T. D. R. Hockaday
Erschienen in:
Diabetologia
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Ausgabe 2/2005
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I was surprised to find no mention of Fig. 7 from the article by Turner et al. [
1] in any of three recent discussions dealing with the ‘hyperbolic relationship’ between insulin sensitivity and insulin release [
2], ‘the hyperbolic law of glycaemia’, most neatly defined as a quasi-hyperbolic relationship in subjects with NGT between beta cell function and insulin sensitivity [
3], and the hyperbola paradigm [
4]. The article [
1] would seem to have as good a claim to be quoted in the history of the ‘hyperbola’ as that most often cited [
5], which was published 2 years later. …