Is there a relationship between sleep-wake rhythm and diabetes?
Friday, January 16, 2009 - 10:35
in Health & Medicine
The gene mediates insulin secretion indirectly via the release of melatonin, which implicates a previously unknown relationship between the sleep-wake rhythm and the fasting glucose level. The finding could open up new possibilities of treatment which go far beyond the primarily symptomatic therapy approaches to diabetes that have been practised until now.