{"id":13894,"date":"2019-07-04T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=13894"},"modified":"2019-07-04T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:46:49","slug":"study-undiagnosed-diabetes-doubles-risk-of-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/diabetes\/study-undiagnosed-diabetes-doubles-risk-of-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Undiagnosed Diabetes Doubles Risk of Heart Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s new evidence that undetected diabetes may triple the risk of severe gum disease and double the risk of a heart attack. In addition, previous research has shown that a combination of diabetes-related kidney complications, ischemic heart disease, and periodontitis creates three times the risk of mortality compared to those without periodontitis.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>The risk of undiagnosed diabetes<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of scientists from Karolinska Institute\u2019s Department of Medicine looked at the correlation between dysglycemia (blood sugar disorders) and severe gum disease and heart attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers looked at data, blood samples and dental x-rays from people had experienced heart attacks or myocardial infarction, as well as a group of control participants. They went on to do the following:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Put each participant\u2019s blood sugar control into one of three categories: normal, reduced and newly detected diabetes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Adjusted for sex, smoking, age, education and civil status<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Applied logistic regression to analyze the data<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>The results<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scientists found that those people who had experienced a heart attack were twice as likely to have undetected blood sugar disorders, including diabetes and poor glucose tolerance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They also discovered that undetected diabetes was strongly linked to severe gum disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur findings indicate that dysglycemia is a key risk factor in both severe periodontitis and myocardial infarction,\u201d says Dr. Anna Norhammar, a cardiologist and associate professor at the Karolinska Institute, \u201cand that the combination of severe periodontitis and undetected diabetes further increases the risk of myocardial infarction. Many people visit the dentist regularly and maybe it\u2019s worth considering taking routine blood sugar tests in patients with severe periodontitis, to catch these patients.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s important to note, however, that this was a small study in terms of how many participants had severe periodontitis and undetected diabetes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results of the study were published in the journal <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diabetes Care.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s new evidence that undetected diabetes may triple the risk of severe gum disease and double the risk of a heart attack. In addition, previous research has shown that a combination of diabetes-related kidney complications, ischemic heart disease, and periodontitis creates three times the risk of mortality compared to those without periodontitis. 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