For diabetics Beware of bone fractures

ANBAT – Agencies

One study found that people with type 1 diabetes are more likely to break their bones when blood sugar is so high.

The researchers examined data from over 47,000 diabetics, including 3,329 patients with type 1 diabetes, the least common type of diabetes, and typically occur during childhood or early adolescence when the pancreas does not secrete insulin.

The other study participants were people with type 2 diabetes related to obesity, aging and the incidence of infections when the body could not use or excrete enough insulin to convert sugar into blood in energy.

The study found that the risk of bone fracture was higher in type 1 patients when their average blood glucose was significantly higher.

How to avoid fractures?

"It's important for people with type 1 diabetes to properly control their blood sugar for all kinds of reasons, and avoid fractures," said researcher Francesque Formiga of the University of Barcelona. "People with high blood sugar should understand that it hurts their health and bones and can increase the risk of fractures, so they have to change their treatment based on the doctor's recommendations," he said.

"Diabetes has long been associated with an increased risk of fractures, but research findings vary in the role of high blood sugar levels," wrote Christian Meyer of the University Hospital Basel in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Fall and fractures, including cognitive impairment and nerve damage, limit foot sensation and retinopathy of the retina, preventing the patient from seeing obstacles in his path and causing the fall.

Complications of diabetes

The study showed that patients with type 1 diabetes with complications such as retinopathy were 29% more likely to have fractures than those who had none.

James Richardson, professor of physiotherapy at the Michigan School of Medicine, who did not participate in the study, said: "This increases the risk of falling in people who can not cope with a change in body posture, such as tripping over the road or spraining the ankle at around 400 parts per second. "