New insight on the link between obesity and type 2 diabetes
It is well known that obesity affects the body's insulin production and over time risks leading to type 2 diabetes and several other metabolic diseases. Now researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found further explanation for why fat cells cause metabolic morbidity. The study, published in Nature Medicine, may have an impact on the treatment of comorbidity in obesity with already available drugs.Obesity is a rapidly growing global public health problem, not least among children and young people. Many metabolic diseases, among them type 2 diabetes, are strongly associated with