March 23/Boston/The Diabetes Report -- A team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has found that levels of five amino acids not only indicated increased type II diabetes risk in a general population, but could also differentiate, among individuals with traditional risk factors such as obesity, those most likely to actually develop diabetes.
The team believes that measuring the levels of these amino acids may be able to identify individuals at elevated risk of developing type II diabetes as much as a decade before symptoms of the disorder appear.