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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
to Prevent Later Diabetes
Pediatric researchers who tested newborn animals with an existing human drug used in adults with diabetes report that this drug, when given very early in life, prevents diabetes from developing in adult animals. If this finding can be repeated in humans, it may become a way to prevent at-risk infants from developing type 2 diabetes.
"We uncovered a novel mechanism to prevent the later development of diabetes in this animal study," said senior author Rebecca A. Simmons, M.D., a neonatologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "This may indicate that there is an important developmental window, a period of time in which we can intervene to permanently protect the body's insulin-producing cells."
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...ndow-to-prevent-later-diabetes-133073083.html
Pediatric researchers who tested newborn animals with an existing human drug used in adults with diabetes report that this drug, when given very early in life, prevents diabetes from developing in adult animals. If this finding can be repeated in humans, it may become a way to prevent at-risk infants from developing type 2 diabetes.
"We uncovered a novel mechanism to prevent the later development of diabetes in this animal study," said senior author Rebecca A. Simmons, M.D., a neonatologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "This may indicate that there is an important developmental window, a period of time in which we can intervene to permanently protect the body's insulin-producing cells."
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...ndow-to-prevent-later-diabetes-133073083.html