Air pollution triggers diabetes – More and more boys get sick – live

Overweight and unhealthy diet are considered to be the leading causes of diabetes. Now, a study shows: Even air pollution is partly responsible.

Washington / Berlin.
Every day in Germany, there are nearly 1,000 new cases of diabetes – and the trend is on the rise. "Junk Food", overweight
and obesity, as well as less and less exercise and sports were previously considered the main causes – in addition to the increase in life expectancy. But now there is a new suspect in diabetes-related diseases: air pollution.

A study now concludes that one in seven new diabetes illnesses is due to contaminated air.
is caused. "Pollution has contributed to 3.2 million new cases of diabetes worldwide in 2016, accounting for about 14 percent of new cases," write authors of the study now published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health.

"It is likely that pollution
reduces the production of insulin and causes inflammation that prevents the conversion of glucose from blood into energy, "write researchers from the Washington School of Medicine in St. Louis (United States)

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Type 2 diabetes was also called" diabetes of & # 39; adult ". However, in recent years, more and more young adults and even teenagers are getting sick. Suffering causes high blood sugar levels because patients suffer from insulin deficiency or insulin

Air pollution limits too high

Previous studies have suggested a possible link between air and diabetes. The new findings now come from medical data from 1.7 million American veterans studied for more than eight and a half years. None of the candidates had diabetes at the beginning of the study. Using a statistical model, the researchers examined how air pollution at their place of residence could explain why they became diabetic. Factors such as obesity and obesity have also been taken into account.

"Our research shows a significant link between air pollution and diabetes in the world," concludes Professor Ziyad Al-Aly. "This is important because many business lobbyists claim that the currently allowed limits on pollutants released into the atmosphere are too severe and should be increased," warns the scientist. Instead, there is evidence that the levels of air pollutants currently allowed are still dangerous and need to be lowered.

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The authors of the study also badume that the proportion of people with diabetes Countries where regulation is less strict – as in India
, In Papua New Guinea, Afghanistan and Guyana – are likely to be even higher.

And it's not just the risk of diabetes that preoccupies polluted air. In 2015, about 4.5 million people died prematurely from the effects of polluted outdoor air – including 237,000 children under five years old who suffered respiratory infections. This is the result of a recently published study by the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry of Mainz and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine