Concerns are the results of the study of scientists from the US, Switzerland, Australia, the United Kingdom and Finland, who came to the conclusion that the persistent high sugar and insulin resistance significantly increases the risk of functional and structural damage to the heart During the development of adolescence in young adult life.
The study of the heart and sugar relationship in adolescents, published in Diabetes Care, was attended by 1,595 teenagers from the age of 17 to 24. Two alternatives, a more stricter price limit of or equal to 5.6 mmol/L recommended by the US Diabetic, and the limit of above 6.1 mmol/L, which is currently present in many countries, were used to evaluate the incidence of diabetics.
Overall, 6.2% of 17 -year -old teenagers had fasting sugar over 5.6 mmol/l, which increased almost five times as much as 26.9% to the age of 24. Only 1.1% of adolescents had a level of over 6.1 mmol/l, but the incidence increased five times as much as 5.6% to the age of 24 years.
The frequency of appearance excessive growth of heart walls (left ventricular hypertrophy) increased three times that of 2.4% at the age of 17 to 7.1% at the age of 24, while the incidence of heart dysfunction increased from 9.2% in adolescence to 15.8% in young adult life.
The persistently high fasting sugar over 5.6 mmol/L from the age of 17 to 24 years was associated with 46% increased risk of left ventricle hypertrophy. The risk was three times the fasting sugar was stubbornly over 6.1 mmol/l. High blood sugar also reduced the relaxation of the heart musclealtered normal cardiac function and excessively increased the pressure of blood flow that returned to the heart. Insulin resistance was associated with 10% increased risk of premature and worsening heart damage, more so in women.
‘The five times the increase in frequency display Within seven years of development from adolescence in young adult life, it highlights the critical importance of lifestyle behavior and eating habits, especially after the independence of adolescents by their family, “says the main author of the study, AndrewAssociate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Child Health at the University of East Finland.