According to a Swedish study, men who have high levels of “psychological distress” had are more likely to develop type2 diabetes than the men with lower levels of such distress.
Under the study, cases of 2,127 men who were born during 1938 and 1957 were studied similarly, 3,100 women were also studied but the researchers didn’t find any such link in them.
In the Journal Diabetic Medicine, the researchers wrote that stress and anxiety might have affected the hormone regulation in the brain.
More than 2.3 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes in the UK at present and according to an estimate more than 500,000 people have the symptoms but they haven’t been diagnosed yet.
In the men whose blood glucose levels were normal asked about signs of psychological distress like insomnia, depression, fatigue, apathy and anxiety.
The men were tested for diabetes after eight to ten years.
It was found that men who had the higher levels of psychological distress had 2.2 percent more likely to have diabetes than those who had lower levels.
The other analysis demonstrated that that link wasn’t dependent on other factors like body mass index, age, smoking, family history, socio-economic background and physical activity.
Under the same study, the women who had higher levels of psychological distress were not found with higher risk of diabetes.
Professor Andres Ekbom who led the study stated “we already knew that depression and stress increased the risk of heart disease but it wasn’t sure that such stress also played a role in diabetes”.
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