Dental experts show why wound healing is impaired in diabetics

[Northerner]

One of the most troubling complications of diabetes is its effect on wound healing. Roughly 15 percent of diabetics will suffer from a non-healing wound in their lifetime. In some cases, these open ulcers on the skin lead to amputations.

For years, researchers have investigated the reasons for problems with wound healing in diabetics. And while many factors contribute, the specific molecular events responsible have remained unclear, and therapies to treat these stubborn wounds are few.

Now, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine have identified a critical molecule that helps explain why diabetics suffer from this problem and pinpoints a target for therapies that could help boost healing.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150126112440.htm

 

[trophywench]

Oh right - expensive gene therapy then instead of cheaper BG lowering treatment, involving input from the patient?

 

[Northerner]

Oh right - expensive gene therapy then instead of cheaper BG lowering treatment, involving input from the patient?

Similar to the iPhone/CGMS solutions, with expensive Apple-based contracts - why do they assume that an expensive solution is the bees knees?