- Of the approximately 530 million adults worldwide who have diabetes, about 98% have type 2 diabetes.
- Several factors can increase a person’s type 2 diabetes risk.
- Recently, scientists have been examining the gut microbiome as a possible link to heightened risk for type 2 diabetes.
- Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have identified specific bacterial strains and viruses that can cause functional changes to the gut microbiome that are correlated with heightened type 2 diabetes risk.
Of the about 530 million adults around the world living with diabetes, approximately 98% have type 2 diabetes — a condition where the body develops resistance to insulin which is needed to process blood glucose properly. Insulin resistance can cause a person’s blood sugar levels to remain high.
Several factors play a role in whether a person develops type 2 diabetes or not, including
Recently, scientists have been examining what role the
One such set of researchers hails Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, where their recently published study in
For this study, researchers analyzed data from the Microbiome and Cardiometabolic Disease Consortium (MicroCardio) that included 8,117 gut microbiome
“Although research over the past decade has linked changes in the gut microbiome to the development of type 2 diabetes, earlier studies have been too small and varied in design to provide solid conclusions,” said Daniel (Dong) Wang, MD, ScD, assistant professor of medicine in the Channing…
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