In an unexpected major breakthrough, Indian scientists have zeroed in on key disease events triggering diabetes in obese people. As per latest study, this happens a lot in India. Immunologist Dipyaman Ganguly of CSIR-IICB said,
"A lot of obese people are getting diabetes type 2 (insulin resistance diabetes). Even in rural India, obesity is increasing. We already discovered a new mechanism in the pathway which leads to type 2 diabetes in obese people.
This is perhaps the root cause of the pathway and opens up possibilities for development of new drugs based on the finding." Ganguly further said, "When a person becomes obese, the fat cells accumulate fat.
The last research established that immune cells called macrophages infiltrate fat tissue and produce chemical mediators called cytokines which leads to inflammation responsible for the eventual insulin resistance."
