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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A common variant of the melatonin receptor gene increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This discovery was made by two research groups at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC), and reveals a completely new mechanism underlying diabetes. The finding, presented in the latest issue of the scientific journal Na

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/unexpected-link-between-diabetes-and-sleep-hormone-melatonin - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Heart attack and stroke afflicts many in spite of them having few or no known risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, changes in blood fat or smoking. -Because of this it is important to be able to identify those at risk who would benefit from preventive treatment, says Olle Melander, docent at Lund Univer

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-risk-markers-discovered-cardiac-infarction-and-stroke - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The risk of becoming obese is 2.5 times higher for those who have double copies of the best known risk gene for overweight and obesity. However, this is only true if the fat consumption is high. A low fat diet neutralizes the harmful effects of the gene. “This means that the critical factor is what you eat. At least i

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/food-habits-are-more-important-most-important-obesity-risk-gene - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Type 2 diabetes is often not caused by a lack of insulin per se, but an inability of the beta cells to secrete adequate amounts of it. Recently, scientists at LUDC have identified a previously unknown agent that plays an important role in the release of insulin. Knock-out mice that lack the ClC3 protein have a severel

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/happy-insulin-cell-needs-be-sour - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Children participating in the DiPiS and TEDDY studies, who are at high risk of developing type 1 diabetes, have the possibility to receive GAD vaccine. The hope is that this will stop the process and prevent the children from falling ill. Some of the children who have an increased risk of type 1 diabetes start produci

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/vaccine-offered-children-i-skania-sweden-high-risk-diabetes - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The finding of a new genetic risk variant and the description of the exact underlying mechanism explains, on a molecular level, the connection between stress and diabetes. This scientific breakthrough is published online today in the journal Science. Carriers of the risk variant have stressed insulin producing cells w

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/risk-gene-activates-stress-system-and-increases-risk-diabetes - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hyperglycemia starts a complex chain of events that damages blood vessels and cause cardiovascular disease. Scientists at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) have now been able to demonstrate why this happens, as well as how the destructive chain can be broken. This discovery represents a crucial step towards an ef

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-mechanism-underlying-cardiovascular-disease - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Leif Groop, professor in diabetes and endocrinology at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, has been elected to recipient of Hilda och Alfred Erikssons prize of year 2010. Leif Groop receives the prize "for pioneering research about Type 2 Diabetes" whcih is the motivation by the Academy of S

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/royal-academy-science-praise-diabetes-professor - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A recently discovered estrogen receptor in the insulin-producing cells may facilitate targeted diabetes treatment for women. The type 2 diabetes drugs that are currently available on the market have often only been tested on men. The identification of this new receptor may also explain why type 2 diabetes is less comm

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/female-hormone-protects-against-diabetes - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Children of immigrants from countries with low risk of type 1 diabetes develop the disease more often than expected if they grow up in Sweden, which is a high-risk country. Scientists mean that it is something in the Swedish environment that causes this elevated risk. Ahmed Delli, who is a scientist at Lund University

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/moving-sweden-increases-risk-diabetes - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Anders Rosengren, physician at Skåne University Hospital and researcher at Lund University Research Centre in Malmö, has received six and a half million swedish crowns from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Project of Excellence. - This means a lot. I can start a research group of my own and drive the research work faster,

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/large-research-grant-mapping-linkage-between-stress-and-diabetes - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the time of the atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and 1960s, the level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere increased dramatically. Now researchers from Lund University have developed a method for measuring the carbon-14 content in atherosclerotic plaques in patients. The measurements reveal how old and da

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nuclear-weapons-tests-provide-information-dangerous-atherosclerosis-plaque - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. All diabetics who developed the disease before the age of six months should be tested for a certain genetic mutation. Some of them might not need insulin injections but could manage their disease just as well, or better, with a simple tablet. “Neonatal diabetes is an uncommon form of diabetes caused by a genetic mutat

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/many-diabetics-could-manage-without-insulin-injections - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A prestigious award to Olle Melander, researcher at Lund University Diabetes Centre and physician at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. He is awarded the prestigious award Peter Sleight Award 2010. The award, which is handed out by the European Society of Hypertension, consists apart from the honor, also by 10.000 eu

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/prestigious-award-cardiovascular-research - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During regulation of blood glucose levels, various hormones interact and counteract with each other in a complex manner. Together, these hormones maintain stable glucose levels. The recent mapping of hormonal interactions, carried out by scientists at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC), aimed to explain why an imb

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/stable-glucose-levels-are-result-complex-hormonal-balancing-act - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the first time, scientists are able to describe the exact mechanism for how a common genetic variant leads to a disruption in blood lipid levels that significantly increases the risk of heart disease. The one in every three persons who carries both copies of the risk allele engages a 40 percent higher risk of suff

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/mechanism-behind-common-heart-attack-gene-explained-scientific-breakthrough-nature - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As a PhD student he made a significant discovery when he identified ghrelin cells in the pancreatic islands. Four hormone-producing cells were already known to exist in the islands, including the insulin cell. The ghrelin cell became the fifth such cell. “In the scientific world, the discovery of a new type of cell in

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/flying-start-fifth-cell - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In competition with more than a thousand entries for the Presidential Poster Competition at the 2010 Endocrine Society congress in San Diego, USA, the winning contribution was that of Rajesh Kumar, scientist at Lund University Diabetes Centre. The research in question relates to the positive effects of the oestrogen h

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/oestrogen-protects-transplanted-cells-and-organs - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The goal is set high, that during the coming ten years develop new methods to prevent, cure and treat diabetes. - Ambitious, but not unrealistic, says Leif Groop, coordinator for EXODIAB, the joint research project that Lund and Uppsala now will launch with a conference in Malmö September 9-10th. Wide range and conduc

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/kick-large-venture-diabetes-research - 2026-04-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Marju Orho-Melander, professor of genetic epidemiology in Malmö, has been awarded Lund University’s Fernström prize. Her research is about genetic variants that are associated with blood lipids and lipoproteins and can therefore increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Many genes exist in different variants. Somet

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/lunds-fernstrom-prize-goes-research-genes - 2026-04-17