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A study has found that among young adults in their 20s and 30s, the risk of diabetes more than doubles if they have a mental illness.
Myongji Hospital’s endocrinology department professor Lee Min-kyung and Lee Jae-hyeok, mental health medicine professor Lee Soo-young, and Soongsil University information statistics actuarial department professor Han Kyung-do’s research team announced on the 13th that they had analyzed the relationship between mental illness and diabetes and confirmed this.
Lee Min-kyung, professor of endocrinology at Myongji Hospital.
The research team used data from the National Health Insurance Service between 2009 and 2012 to analyze about 6.5 million people, including the general public aged 20 to 39 and patients diagnosed with mental illness. The range of mental disorders included schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, and sleep disorders that have been reported to be associated with diabetes.
As a result, the diabetes incidence rate was 2.56 per 1000 person-years (the number of occurrences when 1000 people were observed for 1 year) in the general population, compared to 2.89 in the case of mental illness, showing a significant difference. In particular, the risk of developing diabetes by mental disorder was 2.36 times higher for schizophrenia (6.05 people) and 1.96 times higher for bipolar disorder (5.02 people) than the general population. In addition, the risk of developing diabetes was also high when they had sleep disorders (3.23 people), depression (3 people), and anxiety disorders (2.78 people).
The research team interpreted that the lifestyle of patients with mental illness, including medications for mental illness or physiological characteristics, could affect the occurrence of diabetes. It is said that patients with mental illness may be exposed to obesity or diabetes relatively easily due to lack of awareness of diabetes and difficulties in managing appropriate lifestyles such as exercise or dietary restrictions.
Professor Lee Min-kyung said, “This study is meaningful in that it identified the relationship between mental illness and diabetes in young adults using domestic big data. It is important to prevent the occurrence of diabetes through
The results of this study were published in the SCI-level international academic journal ‘JAMA network open’.
Reporter Lee Gwan-ju leekj5@asiae.co.kr
2023-07-12 23:06:00
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