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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes appears to increase the risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death among people with high blood sugar, partly by stimulating the production of calprotectin, a protein that sparks an inflammatory process that fuels the buildup of artery-clogging plaque. The findings, made in mice and confirmed with human data, suggest new therapeutic targets for reducing heart disease in people with type 1 diabetes. Led by Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers in collaboration with investigators at New York University and the University of Pittsburgh, the study was published today in the online edition of Cell Metabolism.
http://www.healthcanal.com/blood-he...t-disease-linked-by-inflammatory-protein.html
http://www.healthcanal.com/blood-he...t-disease-linked-by-inflammatory-protein.html