Diabetes

Researchers from Technion publish findings in diabetes

Published in Health Business Week, August 14th, 2009

According to a study from Haifa, Israel, "Endothelial function (EnF) is impaired in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) due in large part to an increase in oxidative stress. Haptoglobin (Hp) is a potent antioxidant protein which is encoded by two different alleles (1 and 2) with the Hp 1 protein being a superior antioxidant to the Hp 2 protein."

"We hypothesized that DM individuals with the Hp 2-2 genotype would have greater endothelial dysfunction as compared to DM individuals with the Hp 1-1 genotype. We studied EnF in 16 Hp 2-2, 14 Hp 1-1 DM individuals and 14 healthy subjects. DM patients' groups were matched in terms of age, cardiovascular risk factors and...

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Source: Health Business Week (2009-08-14)

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