Blood Vessel Damage in Diabetes (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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Nearly 26 million americans have some form of diabetes, and scientists know that many of them will develop blood vessel damage as a result, but they haven't known what causes that damage. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a key mechanism that appears to contribute.

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