University of Toronto researchers are calling for more study of obesity, gut bacteria and metabolic conditions that arise in childhood and adolescence, with an eye to curbing the global rise of type 2 diabetes. The team says a better understanding of how genetic and environmental factors that lead to obesity also alter the makeup and function of the gut microbiota—the community of microbes living in the gut—will yield better interventions for children most at risk for youth-onset diabetes.
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