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Quitting “unacceptable” says diabetic US soldier, Iraq veteran
Imagine trying to manage diabetes, insulin and diet under the stress of surprise artillery fire. When U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Mark Thompson signed on to serve his country, he not only ended up in the battle of war, he ended up in the battle of his life.

After his career reached its height as a combat arms commander he had to reassess his military career because he was diagnosed with diabetes. He was told that being deployed to Iraq with his unit was an impossibility. Soldier Thompson had other ideas. Source

Growth Hormone To Boost Athletic Performance Risks Diabetes
Use of growth hormone to boost athletic performance can lead to diabetes, reports a study published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

The study reports the case of a 36 year old professional body-builder who required emergency care for chest pain.

He had lost 40 kg in 12 months, during which he had also experienced excessive urination, thirst, and appetite.

He admitted to using anabolic steroids for 15 years and artificial growth hormone for the past three. He had also taken insulin, a year after starting on the growth hormone.

This was done to counter the effects of high blood sugar, but he had stopped taking it after a couple of episodes of acute low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia) while at the gym.

Tests revealed that his liver was inflamed, his kidneys were enlarged and that he had very high blood sugar. He was also dehydrated, and diagnosed with diabetes. Source

Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Don’t Wake In Response To Hypoglycemia
A study of 16 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and 16 normal individuals shows that only one of the 16 T1DM patients, as compared to ten healthy control participants, awakened upon hypoglycemia.

These results suggest that the awakening response to hypoglycemia is impaired in T1DM patients. It appears that awakening forms part of a central nervous system response to hypoglycemia and that failure to awaken increases the risk for T1DM patients to suffer prolonged hypoglycemia. Source

Diabetes May Be Even Bigger Threat Than Feared
By last year, the number of people with diabetes in Ontario, Canada, had already surpassed the rate predicted for 2030 by the World Health Organization.

The news is bad enough for Canada, but augurs even more ill for the world, which can now expect many more people to succumb to this chronic disease than originally anticipated, researchers report.

Even so, the finding did not come as a shock to many.

“I regrettably have to confess that this did not surprise me,” said Dr. Larry Deeb, president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association. “Every estimate I have ever seen for prevalence has been surpassed the next time you get a chance to look. It’s quite frightening.”

The question is how to prepare for the challenge. Source
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Resources:
dLife; About Diabetes.com; American Diabetes Association

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