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If you suffer from type 2 diabetes and are facing any type of medical procedure in the near or far future, you need to pay especial attention to today\u2019s article.<\/p>\nIf you suffer from type 2 diabetes and are facing any type of medical procedure in the near or far future, you need to pay especial attention to today\u2019s article.<\/p>\n
According to a new study published in the journal Diabetes Care,<\/em> this could lead to sever consequences.<\/p>\n And there is only one thing you can do to avoid it.<\/p>\n Researchers recruited patients from the hospital, who needed surgery between 2013 and 2016 and who were 54 years and older, categorizing them according to their diabetes status.<\/p>\n Of the 7,565 patients, 30% had diabetes and 37% had pre-diabetes, which is higher than the average numbers in the healthy and younger populations.<\/p>\n The patients were followed for six months after their surgery to see how well they recovered and also to enable the scientists to compare the groups with each other.<\/p>\n After these six months, diabetics were 29% more likely than nondiabetics to have died and 32% more likely to have suffered major complications.<\/p>\n In addition, they were 50% more likely than their nondiabetic counterparts to have been admitted to the intensive care unit, 67% more likely to have needed mechanical ventilation, and they also needed a longer hospital stay to recover.<\/p>\n This applied to any type of surgery, not just serious vascular surgery.<\/p>\n The only thing you can do to avoid these surgery complications is to focus on tackling your type 2 diabetes. <\/p>\n