Various reports over recent years have shown air pollution as being one of the possible risk factors for Type 2 diabetes, and recent research is consistent with earlier work.
Researchers at the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in Boston, looked at air pollution and the numbers of Type 2 diabetic patients. The study was published this month in the journal Diabetes Care. Air pollution was recorded at county levels and compared with how many diabetics were present for the years 2004 and 2005. The number of diabetic patients was highest in the counties with the most air pollution when other factors including:
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An increase of 1% in people being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes was calculated for every 10 mcg of air pollution particles per cubic meter.
Another study on the subject was published in the journal Occupational Environmental Medicine in June 2010. Researchers in the Unit of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Trials in the Department of Epidemiolgy and Prevention, National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy, looked at health problems in bus drivers and maintenance workers exposed to air pollution. Records of public transport workers employed between 1949 and 1980 were studied. Health problems for 1970 to 2005 were looked at. Death from diabetes was higher in the transportation workers than for the general population of Genoa.
Still another study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, June 2010, found similar results. Over 1700 non-diabetic German women aged 54 to 55 at the beginning of the study were included. Over a period of 16 years, 187 new cases of Type 2 diabetes were diagnosed. For women in the areas of highest air pollution, the risk of acquiring Type 2 diabetes during the study was 42% higher than for those in areas of lowest pollution.
It has long been known that air pollution is dangerous to people’s hearts and lungs. Now a growing body of evidence links this kind of pollution with Type 2 diabetes as well. If possible, diabetics and their families would do well to avoid areas of high air pollution, but this is not a practical solution. Let’s hope that efforts to create automobiles with less pollution and ways of providing energy to homes and industries, will be successful enough to help curb the Type 2 diabetes epidemic.
In spite of air pollution, people with Type 2 diabetes are achieving longer, healthier lives than ever before. How? By accepting that poorly managed blood sugar levels are really the leading cause of serious health problems. With a little effort on your part, you can avoid the complications of Type 2 diabetes.
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