7/7/2025–|Last update: 09:20 (Mecca time)
Detect study New about a relationship between disease Diabetics of the second type The gene, which produces an enzyme found in saliva, dismantles starch, and the new study supports the idea that the presence of more copies of the gene may have a preventive effect of type 2 diabetes.
If subsequent studies prove that there is a clear correlation between the number of copies of the gene and diabetes, this may lead to genetic tests for people at birth to predict their ability to infection.
The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Cornell in the United States of America, and its results were published in Plos One on July 2, and Yorik Alierte wrote about it.
“If you know that you have a growing threat to diabetes from the first day, this may affect your daily options and your early life options, where you can prevent its development later in life,” said Angela Paul, a professor of molecular nutrition at Cornell University.
Diabetes is one of the types of diabetes that leads to a high level of glucose in the blood, and it occurs as a result of the occurrence of resistance in the cells of the body for insulin hormone or insufficient the amount of insulin produced in the pancreas, as a result of several factors, the most important of them Overweight And the lack of Physical activity.
A person can possess two versions and 20 copies of the genes that express the saliva amylase (named AMY1).
The amylase saliva enzyme analyzes starches into sugars, to start digestion. Dr. Angela believes that while chewing starch, the body feels glucose (blood sugar), which causes people who have the number of AMW1 copies above the secretion of insulin (which regulates glucose in the blood and sugar patients lack) faster, leading to the preventive effect.
Angela said: “I think people who have fewer copies are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes,” Angela said.
She added that the matter also depends on the amount of starch they eat, and she said that for the full answer to these questions, future studies will need to control the diet, follow people for a long time, and conduct a large number of participants.