Diabetes center established at JABSOM with $11.2 million federal grant
The grant will intensify Hawaiʻi-based research into a disease that currently affects 155,000 adults and children—1 in 9 individuals in Hawaiʻi.
The grant will intensify Hawaiʻi-based research into a disease that currently affects 155,000 adults and children—1 in 9 individuals in Hawaiʻi.
The award will enable researcher Gertraud Maskarinec to research the relation of obesity, type 2 diabetes and breast cancer in Caucasian and Asian women.
University of Hawaii Cancer Center discovery may allow physicians to warn patients years before the onset of diabetes.
Increasing physical activity has prevented or delayed the development of Type 2 diabetes according to a national diabetes study.