Endocrine Abstracts

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a life threatening metabolic disease reaching epidemic proportions. Although the molecular basis for this pathology is incompletely understood, genetic and environmental factors, probably in a synergistic manner, contribute to the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The burden of type 2 diabetes and related co-morbidities on society is enormous, and growing, given that there is no cure in sight. Type 2 diabetes shares many features of “accelera...