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Credit: Q Image/Sarah Thorén Owners of a dog with diabetes are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than owners of a dog without diabetes. No shared risk of diabetes could be detected for cat owners and their cats. These novel findings, from a register-based study conducted at Uppsala University in collaboration with three other universities, have now been published in The BMJ. Previous studies have reported a possible association between adiposity in dog owners and their dogs. But could there also be a shared risk of diabetes for pet owners and their dogs and cats? Researchers at Uppsal...

Bidirectional relationship for diabetes risk seen in dogs and their owners

Date Time Researchers contribute to local infection control The map shows the proportion of the adult population who have been tested in different districts in Uppsala during the past two weeks. Photograph: Tove Fall and Mats Martinell Uppsala is one of the regions that has been particularly hard hit by COVID-19 over recent weeks. Infectious disease specialists and researchers are now collaborating to reverse this trend. Mats Martinell, senior medical advisor to Region Uppsala and senior lecturer in family medicine at Uppsala University. Photo: David Naylor It is a Thursday in early December ...