Little Known, Deadly Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Discovered

Type 2 diabetes is considered a progressive disease. This means that it takes a long time to cause any serious, long-term health issues.

But a study published in the journal Diabetologia, reveals how having type 2 diabetes can cause health to spiral downwards quickly – taking a person from good health to the grave in a year.

Researchers from University of Copenhagen and Steno Diabetes Center identified that cancer patients who also suffer from diabetes have less chances of survival compared to cancer patients without diabetes.

The main aim of this research was to identify differences in survival among cancer patients with diabetes prior to cancer diagnosis compared to cancer patients without diabetes.

The best way to study this was the association between medications that lower glucose levels in the blood and its effect on survival. Another area of study was to identify how this association changes with duration of diabetes and time since cancer diagnosis.

For the study, they chose all patients diagnosed with cancer from 1995 to 2009. The patients were then divided into four groups: those who didn’t have diabetes, those who had diabetes but didn’t take any medications, those who took oral hypoglycemic agents (blood sugar-lowering medications) and those who took insulin. This data turned up some serious evidence.

Patients with diabetes for 2 years and taking insulin at the time of cancer diagnosis have nearly 4 times higher mortality rate a year after cancer diagnosis!

Other patients who took oral medications or did not take any medications for diabetes showed a 10 percent higher risk of mortality a year after cancer diagnosis. This shot up to 5 times higher mortality in just five years after cancer diagnosis.

All this proves one thing – evidence points out that survival after cancer in diabetics is significantly higher compared to people without diabetes. Those who took intensive diabetes treatment in the form of insulin were the worst affected set.

This is just one more reason why you need to address type 2 diabetes quickly and aggressively using natural, methods.

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