Children with Type 1 Diabetes suffer from overweight
Children with type 1 diabetes are more likely to have serious complications such as overweight than those without the disease, increasing their risk of serious health complications.
The finding from the main study investigated the weight problems faced by U.S. youth with Type 1 Diabetes, a less common form of the disease that usually found out in childhood or in young adults. The study, part of the “Search for Diabetes in Youth Study Group,” has reported.
“The links between type 2 diabetes and excess weight are well registered, but are less clear in type 1,” said lead researcher Dr. Lenna Liu of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
“It is very important to know the prevalence of excess weight and obesity in children and young people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes as it helps us to identify those people — by age, sex or race /ethnicity — who faces the greatest risk of the clinical complications connected with excess weight,” Liu added.
The researchers investigated data from almost 4,000 people with diabetes and more than 7,500 non-diabetic children and young people aged 3 to 19. The patients with Diabetes have been in regular intervals split between boys and girls and the group included various ethnic groups.
The results of the study have shown that, as a whole, approximately 1 in 8, or 13 percent patients with Type 1 Diabetes were obese. Among black type 1 diabetes patients, 20 percent were obese, while approximately 17 percent of patients of t Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander were obese. White patients with type 1 diabetes had the lowest level of obesity at 11 percent.
In type 1 diabetes, the immune system of a body attacks and destroys certain cells in the pancreas, an organ behind a stomach. Obese patients are at the increased risk for a heart trouble and other serious complications.
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