STUDY ESTABLISHES THAT BIABETIC PEOPLE CAN LIVE LONGER.

Understanding Diabetes

This is a good news for diabetic people. The news is that diabetic people are living for more than 40,50,60 years after having diagonised with diabetes.It is true that diabetes affects the lifespan of people.A few studies have established that the diabetic patient live 8-10 years less.

But the longivity of people with diabetes is also now has come to be known.As Dr.Mohan says it is due to the lifestyle and meticulous control of diabetes.  Studies are going on to know whether any protective gene is responsible for this.

 The other findings are About 25 percent of people who have lived for more than 40 years with diabetes had no complications about heart,kidneys,foot or eye.They have had a fairly good quality of life.
 Even children detected with type1 diabetes even as young as three years old are living as granfathers and have had children also.
 Patients with type 2 diabetes are still living even after 40 years on tablets only, not depending on insulin as belived to be the only way out.
 Further the doctors says that the key for their longivity is the way they had been with their treatment, irrespective of the kind of treatment.The patern seams to be regular exercise,correct diet,blood sugar tests,and maintaing their AIC level to 7.
 Patients should take their diabetic condition seriously from the very beginning and keep the blood sugar under control. If they do so their life will be a healty one.