Trigger found for autoimmune heart attacks

Monday, March 28, 2011 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

People with type 1 diabetes, whose insulin-producing cells have been destroyed by the body's own immune system, are particularly vulnerable to a form of inflammatory heart disease (myocarditis) caused by a different autoimmune reaction. Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Centre have revealed the exact target of this other onslaught, taking a large step toward potential diagnostic and therapeutic tools for the heart condition...

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