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The metrics that predict the course of type 2 diabetes

Factors such as body mass index and blood pressure offer clues to the most likely health problems down the road.
Coloured scanning electron micrograph of deformed cells from an islet of Langerhans from the pancreas of a diabetic patient.

The pancreatic cells (orange; artificially coloured) of some people with type 2 diabetes secrete regulatory hormones (blue) that cannot properly control blood sugar levels. Credit: Lennart Nilsson, Boehringer Ingelheim Intl/SPL

People with type 2 diabetes share an inability to regulate their blood sugar levels, but show wide variations on other measures of health. Scientists report that some of those measures predict complications that are likely to affect a person with the disease — and drugs that are unlikely to benefit them1.

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Nature 605, 398 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01277-y

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  1. Nair, A. T. N. et al. Nature Med. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01790-7 (2022).

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