Type 2 diabetes affects the whole body because it affects the heart and blood vessels, and blood travels through almost every living tissue. As these individual complications, while others do not? Having specific genes makes people susceptible to certain conditions. genes are found and matched with complications to which they can can contribute, it will someday become possible to predict which patients complications patients and their doctors need to watch out for and prevent.
In September of 2018, the journal Acta Ophthalmology reported on a genetic study The work centered on retinopathy, the most common eye disease seen in those diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes ...
- a total of 560 participants with Type 2 diabetes and severe diabetic retinopathy, and
- 4,106 Type 2 diabetic participants without retinopathy
The participants diagnosed with retinopathy were found to have a gene called the NOX 4. The investigators, therefore, concluded NOX 4 is involved in causing diabetic retinopathy in those people who have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
Preventing or treating retinopathy can save the sufferer 's vision.
In the same month, the retinopathy report was published in the journal Life Science Researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, compared which genes were turned on in Type 2 diabetes sufferers with and without non-alcoholic fatty liver disease ( NAFLD. The scientists concluded the testing that they had help to detect people who had had early NAFLD and treat them before serious complications could develop.
When too much fat is stored in the liver, Bilirubin is the natural breakdown product of red blood cells at the end of their lives, about every 120 days. A buildup of bilirubin results in ...
- jaundice (yellow eyes and skin)
- weakness,
- confusion,
- loss of appetite, and
- weight loss.
