Australian researchers has developed a study on this disease, obesity and lifestyle in that continent, confirming biological and behavioral variables as risk factors for type 2 diabetes.
This research has focused on psychological factors, social relationships and stress and how they influence glucose metabolism.The study is center in 3,759 people with glucose at normal levels.
The observation of these people over the years resulted in that the glucose did not metabolize well.According to the report, they are usually old and preferably male.In addition, there was the case that in the specific case of women high levels of stress were detected, a pattern that is not followed in the case of the men who lasted the study.
On the other hand, another Australian study on diabetes, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, asserts that diabetic older adults have at least 50 % more likely to have a physical disability than those that are not.
The researchers, Anna Peeters and Evelyn Wong, from the Baker IDE Corazón and Diabetes in Melbourne, examined more than 3,000 previous studies on diabetes to, end, cross, data of 26 investigations in a meta -analysis (set of statistical tools).The analysis showed that people with diabetes have more or less between 50 and 80 % more risk of physical disability (deterioration of the ability to carry out activities of daily life, such as bathing or eating, and the instrumental activities of lifedaily, such as using the phone, shopping and using transport), compared to people without diabetes.
Although the study does not distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, the authors point out that the majority of the studies included in the analysis are based on investigations of elderly (over 65 years), among which type 2 diabetes predominates"Dr. Peeters has pointed out as hypothesis.