Identification of risk factors for diabetes

 

If you stay up late at night and open your eyes early in the morning or change your bedding, you may be at risk for type 2 diabetes.

This was revealed in a medical study in Europe in which insomnia was for the first time included in the risk factors for type 2 diabetes.

The study, published in the medical journal Diabetology, identified 34 factors associated with type 2 diabetes, of which 19 increased the risk and 15 reduced it.

In addition, 21 more elements have been added to the list of possible elements for which the evidence is not yet strong.

The study, from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, analyzed risk factors using a technique called Mendelian Randomization (MR).

To diagnose the possible elements of type 2 diabetes, the researchers analyzed several meta-analyzes and articles on diabetes in a medical search engine called PubMed and discovered 1360 articles.

The researchers discovered a total of 97 elements that were investigated by the MR method and analyzed 74,000 diabetes cases for this purpose.

They found a link between diabetes and 34 elements, 19 of which were risk-enhancing and 14 protective.

Insomnia was first included in the risk factors for type 2 diabetes and it was discovered that lack of sleep can increase the risk of diabetes by up to 17%.

Other 18 risk factors include depression, blood pressure, smoking cessation, early smoking, coffee use, weight gain, obesity, heart rate and more.

In contrast, the 15 risk-reducing factors included vitamin D, education, raising beneficial cholesterol levels, maintaining overall cholesterol levels, maintaining body weight, reaching puberty, and more.

Researchers compared all of these factors with body weight after puberty, and found that eight factors continued to increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.

Insomnia or lack of sleep continued to increase the risk of diabetes, while high blood pressure, tobacco use, and liver enzyme levels were also part of it.

The researchers said that the findings confirm a number of risk factors in the past and identified some new ones.

"Smoking and reducing obesity, improving mental health, getting good sleep and educating people are important factors in preventing diabetes," he said.