A new study from Concordia found origins of diabetes may be different in men and women.
The study is published in Obesity Reviews and was conducted by Kerri Delaney et al.
Over the past four decades, global cases of Type 2 diabetes mellitus have skyrocketed.
Although the disease is common, there is still much research left to be done to fully understand it. For instance, while diabetes is linked to obesity, researchers still do not know the exact reasons why obesity causes diabetes.
In the study, the team looked at how fat tissue from different parts of the body may lead to diabetes onset in men and women. They reviewed almost 200 hundred scientific papers.
Men and women store fat in different places. Diabetes, like many other diseases, is closely associated with abdominal fat.
Women tend to store that fat just under the skin. This is known as subcutaneous fat. In men, abdominal fat is stored around the organs. This is visceral fat.
Fat appears to exhibit different features in men and women. They grow differently, are dispersed differently, and interact with the inflammatory and immune systems differently.
For example, in men fat tissue expands because the fat cells grow in size; in women, fat cells multiply and increase in number.
This changes with the loss of the protective hormone estrogen that disappears with menopause and may explain why men are more susceptible to diabetes earlier in life than women.
The researchers then looked through the papers to see what was happening in the cell-level microenvironments.
Though more research is needed, there were overall differences observed in the immune cell, hormone, and cell signaling level in men and women that seem to support different origins in diabetes between the sexes.
The team hopes that by identifying how diabetes risks are different in men and women, clinical approaches to the treatment of the disease can be better defined between the sexes.
Currently, the treatment of diabetes is similar for men and women. If we understood the differences between them better, researchers could consider these mechanisms in recommending treatments to men and women based on how diabetes medications work.
Recent studies have found two common beverages may lower death risk in diabetes, and that common vitamin may protect you from type 2 diabetes ,which is relevant to the current study.
Previous research has found that lifestyle changes can help reduce and manage diabetes.
In a recent study at Erasmus University, researchers found that eating high-quality carbohydrates, such as whole grains, was associated with a lower risk for type 2 diabetes.
A high intake of carbohydrates has been found linked to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
In the study, the team looked at whether this effect is different for high-quality carbohydrates and low-quality carbohydrates, which include refined grains, sugary foods, and potatoes.
They analyzed data from three studies that followed health professionals in the U.S. over time.
These included 69,949 women from the Nurses’ Health Study, 90,239 women from the Nurses’ Health Study 2, and 40,539 men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.
Collectively, the studies represented over 4 million years of follow-up, during which almost 12,000 cases of type 2 diabetes cases were documented.
The researchers found a lower risk of type 2 diabetes when high-quality carbohydrates replaced calories from saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, animal protein, and vegetable protein.
They also found that replacing low-quality carbohydrates with saturated fats, but not with other nutrients, was linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes.
These results highlight the importance of distinguishing between carbohydrates from high- and low-quality sources when examining diabetes risk.
If you care about diabetes, please read studies about that why people with type 2 diabetes have poorer muscle function, and these foods could help lower risk of type 2 diabetes.
For more information about diabetes, please see recent studies about drug that can boost survival in people with COVID-19 and type 2 diabetes, and results showing this popular drink may help control diabetes, lower blood sugar.
Copyright © 2022 Knowridge Science Report. All rights reserved.
