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Diabetes is more dangerous than obesity

26/Sep/2006: According to a new study, diabetes and not obesity increases the risk of death in young people, making them more prone to critical illnesses compared to people who do not suffer from this disease.

The study found that diabetes increases the risk of death in young persons by over three percent and most of the diabetics were overweight. The study which was published in the journal ‘Critical Care’ said that the risk of death in obese people who do not have diabetes is the same as that of diabetics, who are not obese.

According to the authors of this study, the relationship between critical illnesses, diabetes and obesity is very complex, but obesity alone do not lead to poor health conditions. They added that obesity is not the main reason behind acute organ failures and deaths caused by organ failure, but diabetes, which is largely related to obesity, is the strong predictor of acute organ failure and the death that might follow.

Zoe Harrison, care advisor of the Diabetes UK (a research charity, with an objective of improving the lives of people suffering from diabetes), said that this research highlights how dangerous diabetes can be. She added that 80% of people, who are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (Diabetes mellitus), are overweight.

Diabetes can lead to serious illnesses like, stroke, blindness, nervous damage, amputations and kidney damage. Many people who suffer from diabetes die from acute organ failure.

K Siva

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