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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Type 1 diabetes may increase the risk for some forms of cancer but lower the risk for others. This is according to new research published in the journal Diabetologia.
Type 1 diabetes has been linked to increased risk of stomach, pancreatic, liver, kidney and endometrial cancers in the new study.
Type 1 diabetes accounts for around 5% of all diabetes cases, occurring when the pancreas is unable to produce the hormoneinsulin, resulting in high blood glucose levels, or hyperglycemia.
Study coauthor Dr. Stephanie Read, of the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences & Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, and colleagues note that previous studies have suggested that people with diabetes have a 20-25% greater risk ofcancer than those without diabetes.
However, they point out that the populations of such studies have primarily consisted of people with type 2 diabetes, given that it is the most common form of diabetes, accounting for 90-95% of all cases. This means the association between type 1 diabetes and cancer is less clear.
"It is possible that the relationship between type 1 diabetes and cancer is different from that observed between type 2 diabetes and cancer as a result of differences in the underlying disease characteristics, drug therapies and patterns of risk factors, such as obesity," the authors note.
As such, Dr. Read and colleagues compared cancer incidence among individuals with type 1 diabetes across five countries, with the aim of gaining a better understanding of the link between the two conditions.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/307239.php
Type 1 diabetes has been linked to increased risk of stomach, pancreatic, liver, kidney and endometrial cancers in the new study.
Type 1 diabetes accounts for around 5% of all diabetes cases, occurring when the pancreas is unable to produce the hormoneinsulin, resulting in high blood glucose levels, or hyperglycemia.
Study coauthor Dr. Stephanie Read, of the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences & Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in the UK, and colleagues note that previous studies have suggested that people with diabetes have a 20-25% greater risk ofcancer than those without diabetes.
However, they point out that the populations of such studies have primarily consisted of people with type 2 diabetes, given that it is the most common form of diabetes, accounting for 90-95% of all cases. This means the association between type 1 diabetes and cancer is less clear.
"It is possible that the relationship between type 1 diabetes and cancer is different from that observed between type 2 diabetes and cancer as a result of differences in the underlying disease characteristics, drug therapies and patterns of risk factors, such as obesity," the authors note.
As such, Dr. Read and colleagues compared cancer incidence among individuals with type 1 diabetes across five countries, with the aim of gaining a better understanding of the link between the two conditions.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/307239.php