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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An extensive global gene-mapping project has identified a large number of loci that dictate whether a person is tall or short. The aim of the project is to find out more about how many genes interact to form biologically interesting mechanisms behind diseases. "Height on its own is perhaps not tremendously interesting

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/height-study-casts-light-genetic-mechanisms - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. TrialNet studies are now starting in Sweden, with the initial trials in Skåne. TrialNet is an international network of researchers who are investigating possible ways to prevent, delay and reverse the development of type 1 diabetes. The TrialNet network is currently made up of 18 research centres – in the USA, Canada,

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/are-you-related-someone-type-1-diabetes - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Research groups in close collaboration in Malmö have shed light on the pathway whereby a common genetic risk variant leads to impaired mitochondrial function of insulin cells. The variant in question impairs the capacity to secrete insulin and increases the risk of developing diabetes. The discovery is published in th

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/disturbance-cellular-power-plant-increases-risk-diabetes - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers are now asking the question the other way around. They want to know why some diabetic patients do not develop complications. What is protecting them? The PROLONG study may provide the answer. - The majority of diabetics will over time develop severe or lethal complications, but 10-15 percent never do. They

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/why-are-some-diabetics-free-complications - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The professors Patrik Brundin and Leif Groop have from the European Research Council (ERC) been awarded the Advanced Grant for 2010. The Advanced Grants are awarded to support excellent and innovative research performed or led by established and wold leading research leaders.Leif Groop researches about genetic causes

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/two-world-leading-researchers-receivs-erc-advanced-grant - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Type 2 Diabetes is the fastest growing disease in the world of today. The cause is that we are not biologically adapted to our way of living. The highest increase of diabetes occurs in countries where the living standards increases very fast. Only 20 years ago the disease was almost unknown in the developing countries

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/collision-between-genes-and-life-style - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. DPP-4 inhibitors are a group of drugs used to treat type 1 diabetes that lower high blood usgar levels by stimulating insulin production in the body. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered that DPP-4 inhibitors are also effective against low blood sugar levels. The study, which was carried out on

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-drug-could-protect-against-low-blood-sugar - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Charlotte Ling, researcher at Lund University Diabetes Centre, receives this year´s Novo Nordisk Foundation Excellence Project grant, five millions Danish crowns allocated during five years. Her project is about exploring whether epigenetic factors are underlying the development of Type 2 Diabetes. - This means very m

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/large-grant-exporing-epigenetics-diabetes - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. No one can explain this strange phenomenon. The majority of type 2 diabetics who undergo metabolic surgery recover from diabetes only a few days after the procedure, long before any weight loss has occurred. Now researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre plan to find out what is happening by studying both patients

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/how-can-metabolic-surgery-cure-diabetes-so-fast - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sofia Enhörning is the younger researcher in Scandinavia who wrote the best scientific article of the year within diabetes research. This means the Scandinavian Society for the Study of Diabetes (SSSD) which gives away the prize to her at the recent congress in Reykjavik.  - Really positive. And an acknowledgement tha

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/prize-best-scientific-article-scandinavia - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Despite the disappointing results in trying to treat children suffering from type 1 diabetes with the GAD vaccine, the treatment has not been written off entirely. DIAPREV-IT, the study in which healthy high-risk children are vaccinated, is continuing as planned, and now with more money behind it. "I am still hopeful

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/still-hope-gad-diabetes-vaccine - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Professor Olle Melander at Lund University Diabetes Centre and Skåne University Hospital in Malmö recieves Heart- and Lung Foundation´s large grant of 15 millions swedish crowns. By investigating the genome in tens of thousands has Olle Melander succeeded to identify markers in the blood which increase the risk of suf

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/heart-research-recieves-15-millions-swedish-crowns - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The fact that diabetes rases the risk of certain types of cancer is already well known, but the reasons have been unclear. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden have mapped a molecular link that explains the connection between the two widespread diseases. Developing type 2 diabetes is a lengthy process. An earl

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/molecular-link-between-diabetes-and-cancer-described - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Despite of more advanced methods than in the routin care it will not be determined which kind of diabetes every fifth new diabetic patient is suffering from. In the ANDIS-project (All New Diabetics In Scania) the concepts will be sorted out. ANDIS also shows that one form of diabetes, LADA, which 15 years ago not even

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/uncertain-diagnosis-every-fifth-diabetes-patient - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. DPCon2012 Conference Co-chairmen George Andros, MD, and David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, are pleased to announce that the Edward James Olmos Award for Advocacy in Amputation Prevention Honoree for 2012 is Jan Apelqvist, MD, PhD. One of the world´s most distinguished experts on the diabetic foot, diabetes-related comp

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/2012-edward-james-olmos-award-advocacy-amputation-prevention - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the eight year in a row, Diabetes Research Day is arranged by the Diabetes Programme at Lund University. Apart from several scientific lectures, two awards are handed out. The award that is presented to a PhD student at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) this year goes to Cecilia Nagorny. She receives this yea

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/awarded-mapping-hormone-darkness - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. International experts has on behalf of the Swedish Research Council evaluated the first five years activity of Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC). The half time evaluation is underlying for the continous grant for the coming five years. All together the rating is "Very well accomplished". 2006 the Research Council

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/scientific-grade-world-class-commendation-and-resumed-confidence - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Anders Jahre Senior Medical Prize for 2012 of one million Norwegian crowns is awarded to professor Leif Groop, coordinator of Lund University Diabetes Centre. He receives the prize for his ground-breaking research on diabetes, especially for his identification of hereditary factors that predispose to this disease

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/2012-jahre-prize-awarded-professor-leif-groop - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Using a new method, diabetes researchers at Lund University, Sweden, have been able to reveal more of the genetic complexity behind type 2 diabetes. The new research findings have been achieved as a result of access to human insulin-producing cells from deceased donors and through not only studying one gene variant, b

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/broader-approach-provides-new-insight-diabetes-genes - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Could a capsule of insulin crystals a day stop the development of type 1 diabetes? There are indications that this could be the case. In the international TrialNet study, which follows relatives of individuals with type 1 diabetes, researchers are investigating whether oral insulin could prevent or delay the disease.

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/could-oral-insulin-prevent-or-delay-diabetes - 2026-05-17