Type 1 And 2 Diabetes Caused By Same Amylin Hormone Mechanism

Sunday, August 24, 2014 - 18:00 in Health & Medicine

A new study has found that both type-1 diabetes and type-2 diabetes  are the result of the same mechanism - the formation of toxic clumps of a hormone called amylin. The results, based on 20 years' work in New Zealand, suggest that type-1 and type-2 diabetes could both be slowed down and potentially reversed by medicines that stop amylin forming these toxic clumps.  read more

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