For the first time, Indian researchers have found new variants ofhaemoglobin based diagnostic markers that provide more reliable blood glucose levels of preceding three months and may also predict complications in diabetes more precisely than the existing methods.
The research has opened up a host of possibilities and raised hopes as to whether their production can be blocked as these diagnostic markers have been found to have some correlation in advancing diabetes and its complications and if so , could this prevent diabetic complications.
The collaborative research of Pune based National Chemical Laboratory, a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and Chelaram Diabetes Institute,was recently published in a peer reviewed medical journal called Clinical Proteomics.
In diabetes,haemoglobin- a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen- is coated with sugar and it is termed as glycated haemoglobin(HbA1c)
Glycation theory suggests that glucose attaches to protein in the blood, plasma,eyes,heart,kidneys and nerves or their blood vessels cause diabetic complications.
Times of India , dated 19 th April 2016.(an extract )
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