A new research suggests that certain gut bacteria and viruses may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes affecting approximately 98% of people out of around 530 million adults living with diabetes across the globe.
A person’s blood sugar levels are caused to remain high due to insulin resistance. Notably, type 2 diabetes is a condition where the body develops resistance to insulin, which is essential for processing blood glucose properly.Recently, scientists have been researching the role of gut microbiome in increasing the risk for a person to have type 2 diabetes, though several factors including age are involved in determining whether a person develops type 2 diabetes or not.
Data from the Microbiome and Cardiometabolic Disease Consortium (MicroCardio) was analysed by the researchers for this study.
This data included 8,117 gut microbiome metagenomes from ethnically and geographically diverse participants, including the US, China, Israel, and Germany.
