Protein reveals diabetes risk many years in advance

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 09:31 in Health & Medicine

When a patient is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the disease has usually already progressed over several years and damage to areas such as blood vessels and eyes has already taken place. To find a test that indicates who is at risk at an early stage would be valuable, as it would enable preventive treatment to be put in place.

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