Ibrahim, N. (2016). Gut Microbiota and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus : What is The Link ?. Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 6(2), 112-119. doi: 10.21608/aeji.2018.9950
Nesma A Ibrahim. "Gut Microbiota and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus : What is The Link ?". Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 6, 2, 2016, 112-119. doi: 10.21608/aeji.2018.9950
Ibrahim, N. (2016). 'Gut Microbiota and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus : What is The Link ?', Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 6(2), pp. 112-119. doi: 10.21608/aeji.2018.9950
Ibrahim, N. Gut Microbiota and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus : What is The Link ?. Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases, 2016; 6(2): 112-119. doi: 10.21608/aeji.2018.9950
Gut Microbiota and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus : What is The Link ?
Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Abstract
The rapid increase of cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the past decades has made it a widespread metabolic disorder. In addition to well-established risk factors for T2DM, including genetic predisposition, poor physical activity, fetal programming and obesity, an altered configuration of the microbial community in our gut – the microbiota – has emerged as a new candidate that may be linked to T2DM. The aim of this review is to focus the light on the role of gut microbiota as a novel key organ involved in metabolism, and discussing the putative mechanisms linking gut microbiota and T2DM, as well as the therapeutic perspective of intestinal microbiota modulation for T2DM.