Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are affecting more and more Danes because an increasing number of people are overweight and have type 2 diabetes. It has recently been reported that fatty liver disease can be a precursor for heart failure, but no one knows exactly wh...

One of the many dreaded symptoms of diabetes is nerve inflammation, which can manifest in two ways: it either causes pain or it doesn’t. Common to either case is the unfortunate fact that nerve inflammation causes major problems. A young researcher at Aarhus University, Xiaoli Hu, MSc, has been given time to w...

A researcher at the Steno Diabetes Center in Aarhus is looking into the reasons why some adults develop diabetes, and at the same time envisions a society in which not too many people have to ‘swim in toxic waters’ If you go hungry as a child, your risk of developing diabetes as an adult increases [&hell...

A young researcher wants to see whether there is an easier and cheaper way for the health service to identify people at risk of developing dangerous fatty liver disease followed by diabetes. Fatty liver affects as many as three quarters of all obese adults with type 2 diabetes. And, if someone has both fatty liver [...

You are what you eat. You are also when you eat. Researchers know this, but they do not know exactly why. A Funen research team now has the opportunity to find at least part of the answer, and the hope is that this new knowledge will in time mean fewer of us dying of liver […]

Medical chemist Sarah Bisgaard Olesen of Aarhus University is on the hunt for the ‘missing link’. Not the link between apes and humans, but the important link between a little sugar substance and its role in the development of age-related diseases such as diabetes. Researchers know this link exists, but they do ...

Danish research team to study the damage caused by chemotherapy in the hope of preventing complications such as diabetes First breast cancer, then type 2 diabetes. That is the reality for some women who undergo chemotherapy. But it won’t stay that way if human biologist Linn Gillberg, PhD, and the research team ar...

Two new Danish inventions may be the basis for a new intervention for people with type 1 diabetes. One is a mechanical artificial pancreas developed in a research alliance between Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark. The other is a stable, soluble glucagon preparation under devel...

Over 70% of people with type 2 diabetes can put their medication away after an obesity operation that also quite significantly reduces the development of feared late complications in the eyes, kidneys and nerves. So, although obesity surgery has side effects too – some of them serious – this study suggests that ...