New studies and potential new treatment could be on the horizon...BD
An explosion of new research is vastly changing scientists understanding of diabetes and giving new clues about how to attack it. Skip to next paragraph Health Guide * Type 2 Diabetes Multimedia The Bodys Role in DiabetesGraphic The Bodys Role in Diabetes Life Sciences Institute/ University of Michigan Study Fat tissue from a mouse that was fed a high-fat diet.
The fifth leading killer of Americans, with 73,000 deaths a year, diabetes is a disease in which the bodys failure to regulate glucose, or blood sugar, can lead to serious and even fatal complications. Until very recently, the regulation of glucose how much sugar is present in a persons blood, how much is taken up by cells for fuel, and how much is released from energy stores was regarded as a conversation between a few key players: the pancreas, the liver, muscle and fat.
New research suggests that a hormone from the skeleton, of all places, may influence how the body handles sugar. Mounting evidence also demonstrates that signals from the immune system, the brain and the gut play critical roles in controlling glucose and lipid metabolism. (The findings are mainly relevant to Type 2 diabetes, the more common kind, which comes on in adulthood.)
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