Pollution affects more people with diabetes

• May 2, 2024

It has been shown that pollution affects and influences diabetes . A person suffering from this disease usually has large amounts of oxidative stress ; a process that is characterized by the biochemical imbalance between the production of Free radicals (RL), with respect to antioxidants

 
On the subject, the medical Luz María Arrieta , specialist in the treatment of Obesity and Diabetes He said: "The body of people with diabetes has fewer defenses against free radicals and the accumulation of sugar, which triggers health problems. oxidation , causing metabolic alterations that result in diseases. This process develops slowly, but steadily. "

And is that one of the current problems in large cities is pollution. This occurs as a result of the appearance in the atmosphere of oxidants, caused by the oxides of nitrogen, hydrocarbons and oxygen reacting with each other in the presence of ultraviolet radiation from the sun's rays.

The damage caused by the RL increases in patients with type 2 diabetes . The evidence of the association between RL Y diabetes There are two: 1. Studies show that the damage caused by oxygen radicals are significantly increased and 2. Abnormalities have been found in the defenses. antioxidants of patients with diabetes .
 

The diabetes is a public health problem that exceeds the 8 million affected in Mexico, and that costs the country more than 778 million dollars, which is developed by various external factors such as diet poorly balanced, overweight , obesity , sedentary lifestyle , smoking , pollution , exposure to sunlight, stress and insomnia . See more notes .

Video Medicine: Air Pollution and Diabetes | Prof. Joel Schwartz 2013 (May 2024).