Associate oncologic diagnosis with risk of diabetes

Korea.- (Texcoco Press). – Patients with diagnosed cancer would be more likely to develop diabetes, a Korean study suggests

The authors studied 524,089 men and women aged 20 to 70 years, without cancer or diabetes based. When half had participated for seven years or more, 15,130 had developed cancer and 26,610 had diabetes. [19659003] Oncology patients were 35% more likely to develop diabetes than people without cancer. The additional cases of diabetes associated with tumors were maintained even after considering risk factors such as obesity, smoking, and alcohol consumption.

"The reasons that cancer patients increase the risk of diabetes are still unknown," said lead author Juhee Cho of Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea.

In some cases, cancer or treatment to eliminate tumors would have caused diabetes, said Cho, adding that "cancer is a very stressful experience, associated with multiple high stress situations, such as infections, bleeding and surgery, which would also increase the risk of diabetes. "

One in ten adults in the world have diabetes. Most suffer from type 2 diabetes, which would be associated with obesity and aging. In the study, the risk of developing diabetes varied according to the type of cancer.

With pancreatic cancer, the risk of diabetes would be fivefold, while it doubles for liver and kidney tumors. Tumors of the bladder and lungs were associated with at least 70% increased risk of developing diabetes. Tumors of the breast, thyroid and stomach were also associated with an increased risk of diabetes.

Time was influenced by 47% more risk of diabetes in the first or second year after the diagnosis of cancer. Six to ten years after diagnosis, the increased risk of developing diabetes was 19%

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