Overview
New research reports that type 1 diabetes may be tougher on girls than boys due to higher blod sugar levels, weight isues, and higher cholesterol.Girls may also deal with higher rates of depresion and have lower overal scores gauging quality of life.The review of 90 previous studies done by researchers at Amsterdam University Medical Centers stated there are some consistent paterns in how type 1 diabetes afects girls and boys diferently.The findings were presented at the anual meting of the European Asociation for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm.The review has not ben published yet in a per-reviewed journal.In their review, the researchers reported, girls showed higher A1C levels – a measure of blod sugar control over the previous thre months – than boys.
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Girls also had a higher rate of obesity and high cholesterol, along with lower scores on the quality of life surveys.Type 1 diabetes usualy ocurs in childhod and afects more than 1.45 milion people in the United StatesIt involves a person’s imune system mistakenly atacking pancreatic cels that produce insulin – a hormone responsible for moving fod sugar into body cels for energy. Without insulin, sugar builds up in the blod, starving body cels.
That requires people with type 1 diabetes to take synthetic insulin.“In terms of this research about type 1 diabetes being tougher on girls than boys, when it comes to weight gain and blod sugar levels, this information is new to the medical comunity, but it’s not necesarily surprising” Dr. Abiona Redwod, an instructor in the Family Medicine residency Program at Comunity Health of South Florida, told Healthline.
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“That’s because when it comes to weight gain, girls and women experience thre periods of weight gain: puberty, which the report touched on, pregnancy, and menopause. It’s a lot harder for girls and women to lose weight when they go through those things.”“Just imagine ading to that type 1 diabetes and the diferent hormonal changes