{"id":27332,"date":"2026-07-01T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=27332"},"modified":"2026-07-01T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:01:11","slug":"diabetes-and-enlarged-prostate-a-shocking-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2026\/07\/01\/diabetes-and-enlarged-prostate-a-shocking-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes and Enlarged Prostate\u2014A Shocking Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Diabetes-470333911.jpg\" alt=\"Diabetes and Enlarged Prostate\u2014A Shocking Connection\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9399\" \/>Type 2 diabetes is a condition that causes your blood sugar levels to rise excessively.<\/p>\n<p>Enlarged prostate is inflammation of the prostate gland.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, there is no connection.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new study published in <em>The Aging Male<\/em> took a second look. It revealed a shocking connection between type 2 diabetes and enlarged prostate\u2014and a connection to high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>The study used information from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, conducted in 2017 and 2018 across 35 states and union territories in India.<\/p>\n<p>Demographic, socioeconomic, familial, and health information were analyzed to find relationships between diabetes, age, other health conditions, and four common urinary problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This is what the study found:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n1. Diabetic participants were 29% more likely than their peers to suffer from an enlarged prostate, 80% more from urinary failure, 78% more from urinary incontinence, and 37% more from kidney stones.<\/p>\n<p>2. Those with high blood pressure had a 44% higher risk of an enlarged prostate, 50% higher risk of urinary failure, 75% higher risk of incontinence, and 30% higher risk of kidney stones. <\/p>\n<p>3. Those with both diabetes and high blood pressure had the highest risk of all four of these problems.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Therefore, diabetes and high blood pressure were independently associated with these four urinary conditions. The risk of all four problems skyrocketed for people with both diabetes and high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fortunately, it\u2019s quite easy to reverse type 2 diabetes. <a href=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/beat-diabetes-vsl\/\">All you need to do is to follow the three simple steps explained here\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s even easier to heal an enlarged prostate. <a href=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/health\/the-prostate-protocol-sl-bhhn\/\">Thousands of readers have done just that using the simple natural steps explained here\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type 2 diabetes is a condition that causes your blood sugar levels to rise excessively. Enlarged prostate is inflammation of the prostate gland. At first glance, there is no connection. However, a new study published in The Aging Male took a second look. It revealed a shocking connection between type 2 diabetes and enlarged prostate\u2014and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,18,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-diabetes","category-prostate"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Diabetes-470333911.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27397,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27332\/revisions\/27397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}