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Job Burnout May Raise Type 2 Diabetes Risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People who suffer from job burnout may be prone to developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study of 677 mostly male middle-aged Israeli workers, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
The findings in this study, investigators say, suggest that chronic job burnout — the core components of which are emotional exhaustion, physical fatigue, and cognitive weariness — might be a risk factor for the onset of type 2 diabetes in apparently healthy individuals.
“It has been suggested that stress plays a significant role in the (development) of type 2 diabetes,” lead author Dr. Samuel Melamed from Tel Aviv University told Reuters Health. “Emotional burnout may pose risk to health. Earlier studies have found it to be associated with cardiovascular disease risk, sleep disturbances, impaired fertility and musculoskeletal pain.”
“Our finding suggests that the potential damage to health may be greater than suspected and it may also include a risk of diabetes,” Melamed said. Source
Diabetes Growing Rapidly Among Children
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Diabetes is striking growing numbers of children around the world as parents and doctors fail to diagnose a disease which until recently was associated mostly with middle-aged and elderly people, experts said on Tuesday.
“Diabetes has become a chronic and common disease among children…and often these children die,” Francine Kaufman, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California medical school, told a news conference at the World Diabetes Congress in Cape Town.
New data from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) showed the two most common types of diabetes — type 1, which usually develops in young people, and type 2, which has been called “adult-onset” diabetes and was once unknown in children — are rising at an alarming rate.
An estimated 70,000 children under the age of 15 develop type 1 diabetes every year, while type 2 is also affecting children as young as eight in both developing and developed countries. Source
Jo’s Note: Get little Johnny and Suzie OFF THE COUCH and outside playing. Oh – and go with them. Take the dog too.
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