Insulin Initiation During a 20-Minute Office Visit: Part 1: Setting the Scene
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1 Setting the scene
An oak tree growing in a meadow has a relatively short trunk and a familiar structure of wide branching limbs that can easily be recognised. However, when oaks grow in forests they compete with each other and develop long straight trunks; they have an appearance that is totally different from the same species growing in open country. One of us, on a family holiday in Greece, collected two tiny ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Spectrum
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1040-9165,1944-7353
DOI: 10.2337/diaspect.23.3.188