Diabetes News – Newsletter for January 13, 2011

MicroRNAs could increase amputation risk in diabetics

WASHINGTON – A new study has discovered that micro-RNA, one of the smallest entities in the human genome, could increase the risk of limb amputation in diabetic patients who have poor blood flow.

Andrea Caporali and colleagues at the University of Bristol have shown in an experimental cell study that conditions mimicking diabetes and a lack … Read this article on Gaea Times at : MicroRNAs could increase amputation risk in diabetics.