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Poor diabetes control may increase the risk of serious infections New UK research has found that diabetes patients with have poor control of their blood sugar may have a higher risk of hospitalization due to infection, and possibly even death. Carried out by researchers at St George's, University of London, the large-scale study looked at more than 85,000 English adults aged 40 to 89 years with a diabetes diagnosis and a measurement of glycated hemoglobin, also known as longterm blood sugar, which is a marker of diabetes control. Medical records on infection rates were also analyzed to compare diabetes patients with poor control to those with good control, and to people without
diabetes. The findings, published in the journal Diabetes Care, showed that the risk for most types of infection, particularly those caused by bacteria, increased for those with the worst diabetes control, with diabetes patients with the worst control almost three times as likely to need hospital treatment for an infection compared to those with good control. Patients with good diabetes control also had a higher risk of getting an infection compared to patients without diabetes, but the risk was lower in this group. The risk of infection appeared to be highest in patients with type
1 diabetes and very poor control, with these patients showing an 8.5 times higher risk of needing hospital treatment compared to those without diabetes. The researchers also found that it is the risk of rare but serious infections that seemed to increase the most by having poor control of diabetes. "Across England as a whole, we found that poor diabetes control accounted for about 20 to 46 percent of some of the most serious types of infections (sepsis, bone and joint infections, tuberculosis and endocarditis) seen in diabetes patients," added study author Professor Julia
Critchley. Also among the findings was that poor diabetes control accounted for 15 percent of pneumonia infections and 16 percent of all deaths related to infections. "Pneumonia is very common and often causes death in older people, and we demonstrated a clear link to blood sugar control," said Professor Critchley. People with diabetes can control their blood sugar levels better through regular exercise, diet and maintaining a healthy weight, and taking medication when needed. Health experts can also help by carefully increasing dose of any medicines or adding new medications as required.
Half of women at risk of dementia, Parkinson's, stroke: study Nearly half of women and one in three men are at risk of developing stroke or degenerative neurological diseases such as dementia and Parkinson's during their lifetime, according to a study published Monday. Dutch researchers considered all three conditions "in order to grasp how big the problem of incurable brain diseases in late
life really is," said the study's senior author Arfan Ikram. "We grouped these diseases together not only because they are common but also because there are indications that these often co-occur and might share some overlapping causes," Ikram, of the Erasmus MC University Medical Center
Rotterdam in the Netherlands, told AFP. This could mean there are also overlapping ways to delay or avoid getting the diseases, and the research found that some preventative strategies may cut the risk by between 20 and 50 percent. For the study, published in the
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, researchers tracked more than 12,000 healthy people over the age of 45 from 1990 to 2016. Over the 26 years, 5,291 people died. Nearly 1,500 were diagnosed with dementia -- 80 percent with Alzheimer's -- while 1,285 had a stroke and 263 developed Parkinson's…..Read More
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