Johns Hopkins Diabetes Health Alerts recently reviewed new research on type 2 diabetes, in which a fat cell protein has been identified that may predict insulin resistance.

In a healthy person the pancreas makes enough insulin to keep the supply and use of glucose in balance. In diabetes, the glucose balancing system is disrupted, and when the body’s cells do not respond to insulin normally — a condition called insulin resistance, the result is an unhealthy rise in blood glucose levels.

Diabetes is often linked to being overweight.

This biomarker could help doctors to prescribe treatments to slow the development of type 2 diabetes and thus avoid the many side effects of diabetes.

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