said Dr. Enas Shaltout Professor of internal medicine Diabetes and endocrinology at Kasr Al-Aini Medicine: Weak muscle mass, or something called “sarcopenia,” occurs when… Diabetics It often happens with age, so we find that there is a loss of 1-2% of muscle mass every year after fifty years, and this percentage rises to 3% per year after sixty years, as well as a decrease in muscle strength by 1.5% per year.
She said, at the conference of the Arab Association for the Study Diseases of diabetes Metabolism: To prevent sarcopenia, you need activities such as push-ups, walking, cycling, swimming and golf, and eat a balanced diet while avoiding stress and psychological stress.
She pointed out that muscle wasting often occurs in the lower extremity with an increase in body fat in the mid-abdomen, and sarcopenia affects 10-40% of the world’s population, which according to some statistics, and this widespread distribution took place. due to an increase in average age in recent decades.
The number of people older than 65 will reach 1.5 billion people by 2050, and the factors that contribute to the development of the lack of muscle mass are the lack of exercise, inadequate nutrition, smoking, as well as the presence of resistance to the action of the disease. insulin, and the increase in some inflammatory substances in the body increases the occurrence of the disease. inability to bear heavy weights.
She said that diabetes leads to an increase in the amount of muscle loss, and that older women are the most susceptible to this, and that the frequency of muscle loss and weakness increases 2-3 times in people with diabetes than in those. without it.
2024-10-09 14:08:00
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