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Researchers discover hormone that may lead to diabetes drugs.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| January 17, 2001 | Flam, Faye | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Adult onset diabetes has risen to an epidemic 14.4 million cases in this country, and while scientists know this rise parallels the expanding waistlines of Americans, they couldn't figure out how carrying extra fat stores triggered the disease.

Now, a group at the University of Pennsylvania say they've discovered a new hormone, dubbed resistin, which is released by fat cells and appears to bring on adult onset, or type II diabetes, which can lead to kidney failure, heart failure, nerve damage, blindness and amputation of limbs.

The Penn team's findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, may lead to new, more precisely targeted drugs to combat this increasingly common and potentially deadly disease.

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