Israelis Discover Clear Link Between Diabetes And Parkinson’s Disease

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Maya Yarowsky, NoCamels | Oct, 20 2014

For some time, doctors and neuroscientists have suggested that people with diabetes are more likely to develop neurodegenerative diseases than non-diabetic individuals, but were unable to prove their hypothesis. Now Israeli scientists at Israel’s Ben Gurion University in the Negev have found a definite link between Type II diabetes and the propensity for developing Parkinson’s disease.

Over a period of three years, Dr. Yifat Miller and her post-doctoral student Yoav Atsmon-Raz attempted to explain how Type II diabetes, also known as late onset diabetes, could affect the body in a way that would make it more susceptible to developing neurodegenerative disease. While things like stroke, heart attack, blindness and kidney disease are known complications associated with Type II diabetes, it has yet to be confirmed that insulin deficiency scientifically raises the risk of contracting neurodegenerative disease. Now Miller’s breakthrough discovery may once and for all make sense of the deadly link between diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.

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