Suffering From Diabetes? Maybe It Is Time To Get Married, Studies Suggest

If you're suffering from type 2 diabetes, then it's probably time to tie the knot. Not only are spouses great for companionship but also, a new research suggests that married people who suffer from diabetes are less overweight than of those who are single. Is it because of their spouse?

A team of researchers led by Dr. Yoshinobu Kondo and colleagues at Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine and Chigasaki Municipal Hospital, studied the medical records involving over 270 patients suffering from type 2 diabetes from 2010-2016. The patients include 90 single (46 men and 44 women) and 180 (109 men and 71 women) living with their spouses.

Meanwhile, the same researchers discover that diabetic men who live with their spouses are less likely to undergo metabolic syndrome, which is a combination of related factors that includes high blood sugar and high blood pressure which could lead to heart diseases and even stroke.

In line with this, the patient's body mass index was carefully studied and results showed that married people had a lower body mass index (24.5) compared to those who are single (26.5). Thus, married people also revealed that they have lower levels of HbA1c or the measurement of blood sugar control (7.3 percent versus 7 percent, respectively) which lower numbers are better results. For metabolic syndrome, married people has 54 percent while single people has 68 percent, according to Health Day.

To conclude, the studies resulted that married men have a 58 percent lower risk of metabolic syndrome compared with single.  However in the case of women, there was no evidence of any connection while, there were no serious differences in the aspect of weight for both genders. The results were presented at the  European Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting in Munich, Germany but it was not yet published, reported by Medical Daily.

Related results according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there was an increase in the number of adults having diabetes in the United States. Ages between 19 and 79 were newly diagnosed with diabetes which tripled the numbers form 493,000 in 1980 to more than 1.4 million in the year 2014.