Signs of being prone to adult diabetes can be seen from very young age. What we didn’t know is how early in life the first signs of disease activity become visible and what these early signs look like. Knowing what these early signs look like widens our window of opportunity to intervene much earlier and stop diabetes before it becomes harmful,” Bell added. The study was conducted among young people who were generally free of type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases to see how early in life the effects of being more susceptible to adult diabetes become visible. This does not mean that young people ‘already have adult diabetes’; these are subtle differences in the metabolism of young people who are more prone to developing it later in life.

Source: Hindustan Times June 21, 2020 09:45 UTC