Emerging therapeutic approaches for the treatment of NAFLD and type 2 diabetes mellitus

D Ferguson, BN Finck - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2021 - nature.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has emerged as the most prevalent liver disease
in the world, yet there are still no approved pharmacological therapies to prevent or treat this …

An atlas on risk factors for type 2 diabetes: a wide-angled Mendelian randomisation study

S Yuan, SC Larsson - Diabetologia, 2020 - Springer
Aims/hypothesis The aim of this study was to use Mendelian randomisation (MR) to identify
the causal risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Methods We first conducted a review of meta …

Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank

N Sinnott-Armstrong, Y Tanigawa, D Amar, N Mars… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Clinical laboratory tests are a critical component of the continuum of care. We evaluate the
genetic basis of 35 blood and urine laboratory measurements in the UK Biobank (n …

Causal relationships between NAFLD, T2D and obesity have implications for disease subphenotyping

Z Liu, Y Zhang, S Graham, X Wang, D Cai, M Huang… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), type 2 diabetes (T2D) and
obesity are epidemiologically correlated with each other but the causal inter-relationships …

Prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M De Vries, J Westerink… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Context Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) prevalence is high, especially in patients
with obesity and type 2 diabetes, and is expected to rise steeply in the coming decades …

Why are South Asians prone to type 2 diabetes? A hypothesis based on underexplored pathways

KMV Narayan, AM Kanaya - Diabetologia, 2020 - Springer
South Asians have a high prevalence of type 2 diabetes, even at a lower BMI. This review
sets out our perspective and hypothesis on the reasons for this. Emerging data from …

A phenome-wide comparative analysis of genetic discordance between obesity and type 2 diabetes

DE Coral, J Fernandez-Tajes, N Tsereteli… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are causally related, yet there is considerable heterogeneity in
the consequences of both conditions and the mechanisms of action are poorly defined. Here …

The critical role of passive permeability in designing successful drugs

L Di, P Artursson, A Avdeef, LZ Benet… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Passive permeability is a key property in drug disposition and delivery. It is critical for
gastrointestinal absorption, brain penetration, renal reabsorption, defining clearance …

Causal factors underlying diabetes risk informed by Mendelian randomisation analysis: evidence, opportunities and challenges

S Yuan, J Merino, SC Larsson - Diabetologia, 2023 - Springer
Diabetes and its complications cause a heavy disease burden globally. Identifying
exposures, risk factors and molecular processes causally associated with the development …

Estimating the effect of liver and pancreas volume and fat content on risk of diabetes: a Mendelian randomization study

S Martin, EP Sorokin, EL Thomas, N Sattar… - Diabetes …, 2022 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE Fat content and volume of liver and pancreas are associated with risk of
diabetes in observational studies; whether these associations are causal is unknown. We …