"If you scare you, it gives you diabetes ..."
Many people exclaim this phrase when something causes you a great negative impact.
According to a study by University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 70% of Hispanic patients with diabetes consider that a scare caused their condition.But, this is not true.
According to Mauricio Moreno, geriatrician of the Integral Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of the South Medical Hospital, in the face of stress hormones, so that the body is defended or fleeing if necessary.
It is also true that before a scare the glucose rises, however, there are mechanisms that keep it in a normal range.
This happens if you scare yourself and you have diabetes and you don't know it
People who live with non -diagnosed diabetes and who do not have their glucose levels controlled, suffer a decompensation at the time of fright.When they go with the doctor they detect diabetes.
That is, a scare can help the diagnosis of diabetes, but it is not the one that causes the disease.Before him, the person already had high glucose levels.