“Even in the pre-diabetic stage, the risk of metabolic disease is high… You need to manage it in advance”
Asan Medical Center, Seoul analyzed 13,000 Korean adults aged 30 and over
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jandi Kim = Although the fasting blood sugar level is below 125 mg/dL, the standard for diagnosis of diabetes, a study has found that if it is kept high, there is a high risk of various metabolic diseases such as obesity and abdominal obesity.
The research team led by Professor Young-sik Kim and Seo-young Kang of the International Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, conducted a research team led by 13,625 adults over 30 years of age who were not diagnosed with diabetes who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Survey (2016-2018), including fasting blood sugar levels, metabolic diseases, and lifestyle habits. It said on the 12th that it confirmed this fact by analyzing etc.
According to the fasting blood sugar level, the research team divided them into ▲ less than 90 mg/dL ▲ 90-99 mg/dL ▲ 100-109 mg/dL ▲ 110-124 mg/dL ▲ 125 mg/dL or more.
As a result of the analysis, the higher the fasting blood sugar level, the higher the ratio of obesity and abdominal obesity was significantly increased.
In men, the proportion of obese people in the group with a fasting blood sugar of less than 90 mg/dL was 27.2%, and the proportion of obese people in the group of 90-99 mg/dL was 38.3%, and that of 110-124 mg/dL was 55.2%, which more than doubled. did.
Women were similar. The obesity rate in the group with a fasting blood glucose of less than 90 mg/dL was 16.9%, but 26.8% in the group with 90-99 mg/dL and 51.5% in the group with 110-124 mg/dL.
It was found that blood pressure, triglyceride, and cholesterol indicators also worsened as the fasting blood sugar level increased.
An association between increased fasting blood sugar levels and excessive drinking was also confirmed.
In the group with a fasting blood sugar of less than 90 mg/dL, the proportion of heavy drinkers was 20.8% for men and 11.0% for women, but increased to 38.6% and 11.9% in the group with a fasting blood sugar of 110 to 124 mg/dL, respectively.
The research team explained that excessive drinking has an adverse effect on blood sugar control.
Also, among lifestyle habits, exercise was not found to be associated with an increase in fasting blood sugar. The research team explained that only exercising without drinking alcohol or losing weight does not help much in managing blood sugar.
Professor Kim said, “Even if you do not fall under diabetes, if your fasting blood sugar level is over 90 mg/dL, you need to manage your blood sugar because there are risks such as high blood pressure, obesity, abdominal obesity, and dyslipidemia. “If you are a person with high blood pressure or pre-diabetes, it is good to have your blood sugar checked every year,” he said.
The research results were published online in the Journal of Diabetes, an international scientific journal in the field of diabetes.
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