Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. With type 1 diabetes, the body does not make insulin.
With type 2 diabetes, the more common type, your body does not make or
use insulin well. Without enough insulin, the glucose stays in your blood.
Over time, having too much glucose in blood can cause serious
problems. It can damage your eyes, kidneys, and nerves. Diabetes can also cause heart disease, stroke and even the need to remove a limb.
The number of people with diabetes has quadrupled worldwide
over the last 20 years.
Inflammation is one of the main reasons why people with
diabetes experience heart attacks, strokes, kidney problems and other, related
complications. Now, in a surprise finding, researchers have discovered, in
mice, that when certain immune cells can’t manufacture fat, the mice don’t
develop diabetes and inflammation, even when consuming a high-fat diet.
But eliminating inflammation altogether is not the answer to
preventing diabetic complications because inflammation is also vital for clearing
infectious pathogens from the body and helps wounds heal. Still, Semenkovich
said the new findings may have profound clinical implications.
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