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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The most significant complications of diabetes include diabetic retinal disease, or retinopathy, and diabetic kidney disease, or nephropathy. Both involve damaged capillaries.
The biggest risk factor associated with damage to the tiny blood vessels is high blood sugar, although genetic factors are also at play. Experiments conducted on both individual cells and laboratory animals indicate that the presence of vitamin B1 inside the cell can prevent the damage caused by high blood sugar.
Together with Professor Massimo Porta from the University of Turin, Italy, Professor Per-Henrik Groop, Principal Investigator of the FinnDiane research project at the University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Centre, Finland, and his research group have studied the impact of point mutations on the genes that encode the proteins which transfer vitamin B1 into cells. The research was based on the hypothesis that the studied mutations impact the individual's capacity to transfer vitamin B1 into cells and consequently the susceptibility for additional complications associated with diabetes.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoh-rda021016.php
The biggest risk factor associated with damage to the tiny blood vessels is high blood sugar, although genetic factors are also at play. Experiments conducted on both individual cells and laboratory animals indicate that the presence of vitamin B1 inside the cell can prevent the damage caused by high blood sugar.
Together with Professor Massimo Porta from the University of Turin, Italy, Professor Per-Henrik Groop, Principal Investigator of the FinnDiane research project at the University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Centre, Finland, and his research group have studied the impact of point mutations on the genes that encode the proteins which transfer vitamin B1 into cells. The research was based on the hypothesis that the studied mutations impact the individual's capacity to transfer vitamin B1 into cells and consequently the susceptibility for additional complications associated with diabetes.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoh-rda021016.php
