Diabetes, Heart Disease Linked By Same Genes: Study
Nirmal Singh 3C would like to talk about the recent research identifying the gene variants that somehow generate risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease. These fatal diseases are the prime cause of global morbidity and mortality rate statistics. Nirmal Singh 3C points out that the small DNA variations have been linked to higher diabetes risk, the study confirmed calling it a diabetes “risk loci”. As many as 16 new factors were also uncovered in the research. Around eight specific gene variants have been strongly linked to altered risk for both diseases, as per the researchers. “Identifying these gene variants linked to both Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease risk in principle opens up opportunities to lower the risk of both outcomes with a single drug,” said co-senior author Danish Saleheen, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. Nirmal Singh 3C would further like to quote Saleheen, “From a drug development perspect...