10.10.2024:
You wake up with a dry mouth and pounding headache. You are sweating, irritable and experiencing symptoms of anxiety. Inside, a relentlessly churning meat grinder is spiralling out of control, and you start to vomit. You ask yourself: 'What happened?' 'Hangover' is known by a variety of...
21.06.2016:
Novel hypotheses on the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes have been put forward in recent years in which insulin resistance is proposed as a physiological defence mechanism against metabolic stress, especially for the heart. The consequence of adaptive insulin resistance may be reduced risk of acute...
09.12.2014:
Thousands of genes control our metabolism, and type 2 diabetes has therefore been called the geneticist’s nightmare. Genome-wide association studies have not been able to reveal the mechanisms underlying the development of obesity and diabetes. However, genetic and epigenetic theories are still...