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Home / Health News / Are you suffering from Type-1 diabetes? TB vaccine may help you

Are you suffering from Type-1 diabetes? TB vaccine may help you

Type - 1 diabetes is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produce little or no insulin.

By: Agencies   | | Updated: June 24, 2018 2:15 pm
Tags: Anti-diabetes  Diabetes management  Diabetes medication  diabetes problem  TB  TB Cure  

A vaccine primarily used for treating tuberculosis (TB) may be effective in reducing high blood sugar among people with Type – 1 diabetes, results from a clinical trial has revealed. Also Read - Diabetes Drug Metformin Comes with Some Surprising Side-Effects: Here’s What you Need to Know

The findings showed that, three years after receiving two administrations of the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine four weeks apart, people with longstanding Type-1 diabetes showed an improvement in HbA1c — Aglycated haemoglobin — measured to test the overall sugar levels to near normal levels. Also Read - Diabetes: Here's what happens when you forget to take your medicines



“This is clinical validation of the potential to stably lower blood sugars to near normal levels with a safe vaccine, even in patients with longstanding disease,” said Denise Faustman, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Immunobiology Laboratory, US. Read: Tips to manage type 1 diabetes in children Also Read - Diabetes treatment: This allopathic drug combination can help you manage this condition

The study, published in the journal npj Vaccine, also reported that the effects of BCG vaccine on blood sugar control appear to depend on a totally novel metabolic mechanism that increases cellular consumption of glucose.

The team analysed data from 282 human study participants — 52 with Type-1 diabetes who participated in the BCG clinical trials and 230 who contributed blood samples for mechanistic studies.

The results showed that the HbA1c levels of those receiving BCG had dropped by more than 10 per cent in three years after treatment and by more than 18 per cent in four years. Read: Can Type 1 diabetes be reversed? (Diseases query of the day)

The study showed that BCG vaccination induces epigenetic reprogramming at the chromatin architecture level and functional alterations indicative of a permanent change in immunity.

Thus, the clinical effects and the proposed mechanism add to the emerging consensus that the BCG vaccine can have a lasting and valuable impact on the immune system, the researchers said.

Source: IANS

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Published : June 24, 2018 2:14 pm | Updated:June 24, 2018 2:15 pm
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