{"id":6061,"date":"2018-04-18T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:09:49","slug":"type-1-diabetes-affects-the-muscles-of-even-active-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/type-1-diabetes-affects-the-muscles-of-even-active-young-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Type 1 diabetes affects the muscles of even active young adults<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers analyzed muscle biopsies of young adults with and without Type 1 diabetes who exceed Diabetes Canada&#8217;s recommended weekly levels for physical activity.\u00a0They found structural and functional changes in muscle cells; power generation units, or mitochondria, of subjects with diabetes. The changes could result in reduced metabolism, greater difficulty controlling blood glucose and, if left unchecked, an accelerated rate of developing disability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00125-018-4602-6\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published April 18, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-authors: <\/strong>Thomas Hawke, McMaster University &#8211;\u00a0<a>hawke@mcmaster.ca<\/a>; Christopher Perry, York University &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:cperry@yorku.ca\" target=\"_blank\">cperry@yorku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers analyzed muscle biopsies of young adults with and without Type 1 diabetes who exceed Diabetes Canada&#8217;s recommended weekly levels for physical activity.\u00a0They found structural and functional changes in muscle cells; power generation units, or mitochondria, of subjects with diabetes. The changes could result in reduced metabolism, greater difficulty controlling blood glucose and, if left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1zL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}