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Published: Friday, 05 October 2018 15:46

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Photo: CadenagramonteBerlin, Oct 5.- An investigation reveals among the factors influencing the rate of progression of type 2 diabetes (DT2) a high body mass index and heavy proportions of hip and waist,publishes specialized media.

For the study, presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, held in Berlin, data were used from the UK BioBank, an ongoing health study of more than 500,000 British volunteers recruited from 2006 to 2010.

The researchers studied a selection of 6215 white European patients with DT2 who had lived with the disease for no more than ten years, of which 429 patients were chosen that could be combined in pairs by the time they had lived with DT2.

Couples were joined by a member in which the disease was progressing fast, which required insulin in ten years, and a person who controls it by means of a food diet.

The team, comprised of experts from the Universities of Dundee, United Kingdom and Uppsala, Sweden, studied the clinical and biochemical factors that combine the two groups to discover the associations between them and the observed rate of progression of the disease.

They found that  the membership in the rapid progression group was also associated to a younger age at the time of diagnosis and  the consumption of statins and fibrates, medication used to control cholesterol.

By comparing the family histories of the two groups, the team also found that a history of diabetes on the maternal side of the family was associated with an increased risk of fast progression of the disease.

And they concluded that "the greater prevalence of maternal diabetes history in the fast progression group suggests an impact of the maternal intrauterine environment on the progression of diabetes in the offspring." (Cadenagramonte)

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