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2012-02-22
Researchers from Europe battle aggressive type 2 diabetes
Metabolic research
More than ten per cent of those with elevated blood sugar levels develop type 2 diabetes within two years. Among those affected, from ten to twenty per cent respond so poorly to current therapies that the disease causes complications. A major European research effort with Danish participation and EU funding is taking up the battle with aggressive diabetes on a whole range of d
ifferent fronts.
"With what we know at present, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes appears to lie in changes among our 25,000 genes and to changes in the hundreds of bacteria types living in our gut," says Oluf Borbye Pedersen, Professor of Molecular Metabolism and Genetics at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research and the Lundbeck Foundation Center for Applied Medical Genomics at the University of Copenhagen.
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