A gene variant strongly associated with development of type
2 diabetes appears to interact with a Mediterranean diet pattern to prevent
stroke, report researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research
Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University and from the CIBER
Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutriciόn in Spain. Their results , published
online today in Diabetes Care, are a significant advance for nutrigenomics, the
study of the linkages between nutrition and gene function and their impact on
human health, particularly chronic disease risk.