Obesity Is More Common in People With Type 1 Diabetes Than Previously Thought:
People with type 1 diabetes should be screened regularly for obesity and chronic kidney disease, according to a study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Almost half of the adults in the United States have obesity, a chronic progressive disease characterized by an individual having an excess of body fat. Obesity is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and people with obesity are at an increased risk for many serious diseases and health conditions such as diabetes, heart and liver disease. Obesity is a main risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes, but it has not been previously seen as a major complication in type 1 diabetes.
In type 1 diabetes, the body completely stops making insulin. In type 2 diabetes, the body produces insulin, but the cells do not respond to insulin as well as they should and later in the disease often do not make enough insulin. Type 2 diabetes is more likely to occur in people who are over the age of 40, overweight, and have a family history of diabetes, although more and more younger people, are developing type 2 diabetes.
“Our study shows that obesity rates in adults with type 1 diabetes are increasing and mirror the rates in the general adult population,” said Elizabeth Selvin, Ph.D., M.P.H., of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. “Our research also highlights the high risk of kidney disease in people with type 1 diabetes. Kidney disease is often considered more common in people with type 2 diabetes, but our data shows adults with type 1 diabetes actually had a higher risk of kidney disease than those with type 2.”
[...] Reference: “Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease in U.S. Adults with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” 26 January 2022, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Snotnose on Thursday January 27 2022, @09:13PM (1 child)
If you are fat there is this nasty disease you really don't want.
Disclaimer: I'm fat. And old. Deal.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 27 2022, @09:29PM
Keep in mind that the Jew-run medical industry profits from keeping people sick -- and if you ever doubted it, take a look around at this "pandemic."
One single fucking month of a keto diet will get all of a type-2 diabetic's levels back to normal, and will maintain blood sugar at a nice low-normal level, and all without enriching Jew-run Big Pharma. Unfortunately, that doesn't work for Type-I's, as it will cause potentially deadly ketoacidosis.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 27 2022, @09:31PM (1 child)
So type 1 diabetes isn't protective against obesity? Shocking.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 27 2022, @11:28PM
The study is more useful than you give it credit for. Since type 1 diabetics have to carefully monitor their diet, it actually does "protect" against obesity.
With so many more children being obese, and more babies born to obese mothers, there have been some preliminary links established between obesity and type 1 diabetes, even though it's really an autoimmune disease (and there are increasing rates of type 2 diabetes at young ages).
Personally, I think all this stuff is caused by endocrine disruptors (which are chemicals, not Romulan weapons). People born in the 40s through the 60s grew up swimming in lead, and it caused all kinds of problems. Now people grow up with their bodies full of plastic. There really hasn't been a time since the Industrial Revolution when people weren't suffering from pollution.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 27 2022, @10:07PM (7 children)
Virtually all diabetics I've ever known were somewhere between 'overweight' and 'morbidly obese'. I really don't think I've ever heard of a some skinny guy taking insulin, or even worry overmuch about his sugar level. As so often happens, it seems these people had to do a study, to confirm what all the rest of us know.
No worries, though. Next month, another study will claim that we're all diabetics, and the only reason we don't have symptoms is, we haven't yet put on the weight necessary to trigger those symptoms.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday January 27 2022, @10:26PM
It may be rare, but it happens. I knew a skinny diabetic 19 year old.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 27 2022, @10:37PM
Most really old diabetics are skinny, but that's probably survivor bias.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 27 2022, @10:45PM
https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/features/do-thin-people-get-diabetes [webmd.com]
1/10 diabetics are at a healthy weight. I mean, if you eat McDs every day for life, that's probably not healthy. Even, if you stay at a healthy weight.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 27 2022, @11:20PM
Type 1 diabetes can affect anybody, regardless of their weight. Most type 1 diabetics are diagnosed as children. An example of a fit person with type 1 diabetes is former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Friday January 28 2022, @01:57AM
Type 1 and Type 2 are very different. Type 2 is what happens when you break your body with sugars. This is probably what you are used to seeing: really fat people who ruined their bodies and their lives. Type 1 just happens. Could be anyone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 28 2022, @06:03AM
Maybe you are just aware of type 2 diabetes in people you know. It's very common in truck drivers because of poor diets and long hours of sitting.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday January 28 2022, @01:35PM
> As so often happens, it seems these people had to do a study, to confirm what all the rest of us know.
How many diabetics have you known? How many non-diabetics have you known? What proportion of the non-diabetic population were obese compared to the diabetic population? Were the diabetics Type 1 or Type 2?
Just also some metadata required - how did you do your sampling, and to what extent was it representative of the general population? Were there any correlations associated with income, skin colour, wealth, age?
Just curious/