HEalth Issue: Circadian rhythms can lead to diabetes.

Disruption in body clock genes could pave the way to diabetes London: A new animal study has shown that disruption of two genes that control circadian rhythms can lead to diabetes. Circadian rhythms are cyclical patterns in biological activities, such as sleeping, eating, body temperature and hormone production.       "These results indicate that ddisruption of the daily clock may contribute to diabetes by impairing the pancreas' ability to deliver insulin," said Dr Joseph Takahashi, investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and co-senior author of the study.