Age Factor in Diabetes

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As we know, there are hundreds of parameters involved in diabetics and age is only one of them. But it has more prominence than other factors as it has a direct and linear relationship with the decease. Researches show this linear relationship to have a positive trend with the age so in simple terms, when you grow old, you have more risk of getting diabetes.

It is found that diabetes is marginally common among the men than women. This margin becomes wider at higher age. From 1990, the records indicate that the number of diabetes patients has become doubled and it is reflected among all the age groups. But the amazing fact is that the percentage of increase for the age group from 20 to 39 years has hardly changed. The higher and prominent percentage is recorded in higher age groups than 39 years. So this increase does not have a linear effect but it has an exponential effect. There can be many reasons for this sharp increase of diabetes such as food, overweight problems, media etc. Due to media, more people tent to take medical tests for diagnosing diabetes and get in to records.

Age increase the risk of only type 2 diabetes as type two has many risk factors involved over type 1. But medical observations suggest that there have been number of cases reported where diabetes with children below 12 years of age. The theory behind this is that pancreas ages right along with us and does not pump insulin as efficiently as it did when we are younger. Also on the other hand, when our cells age, they become more resistant to insulin than they were younger. Both these issues cause type 2 diabetes to be increased with the age and both seems quite natural.

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