PTEN protein reduces the risk of diabetes in women
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Last Update: 2015-07-17
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Source: Internet
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Obese men have a significantly higher risk of type 2 diabetes than obese women Although many studies have confirmed this, researchers from McMaster University in Canada recently found evidence for the first time that this risk gap is associated with a muscle protein with different activity characteristics between men and women The researchers found that a protein called PTEN has different ways of action between men and women According to reports, the activated PTEN protein will prevent insulin from correctly transmitting signals in muscles, thus reducing the amount of sugar used by muscles and increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes M Constantine Samaan, a paediatric endocrinologist at McMaster University and assistant professor of pediatrics at Michael g DeGroote School of medicine, who led the study, said in the study they found that women's muscles seemed to be able to neutralize the protein more efficiently, allowing insulin to better deliver sugar from the circulatory system to the muscles According to him, the protein is one of the reasons why women with the same weight have more body fat but are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes The results of the latest study have been published in the journal scientific report (internship compiler: Chen Lurong reviser: Huang Zhiwei)
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