Weight Loss Before Diabetes Diagnosis

It seems that for these people a diabetes diagnosis somehow leads to weight loss.

Weight loss before diabetes diagnosis. Obesity is the greatest risk factor for type 2 diabetes and most patients have gained weight in the years prior to their diagnosis says rasmus køster rasmussen md a ph d. And did not experienced weight loss before t2dm diagnosis respectively. After diagnosis the weight gain declined and weight loss was generally seen.

Share this article via email with one or more people using the. While intentional weight loss in people with diabetes is usually a good thing unintentional weight loss is not. If blood sugars are very high patients with diabetes tend to urinate a lot and this results in dehydration as a possible cause of weight loss.

The mean rate of change of bmi ranged between 0 61 and 0 22 kg m2 per year. Also muscle breakdown can occur if sugars are too high causing an unhealthy weight loss. From copenhagen university s research unit for general practice.

Doctors sometimes refer to prediabetes as impaired glucose tolerance igt or impaired fasting glucose ifg depending on what test was used when it was detected. We used propensity score matching to reduce the confounding bias between the groups. Mean bmi climbed between 0 43 and 0 71 kg m2 per year.

Find out why this happens and what to watch for. In addition a logistic regression analysis of the matched data was performed to evaluate the risk of diabetic complications. Our goal was to investigate the relationship between weight loss before a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus t2dm and diabetic complications among hospitalized patients with t2dm we conducted a cross sectional study and evaluated 347 and 642 hospitalized patients with t2dm who experienced and did not experienced weight loss before t2dm.

Weight loss before a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for diabetes complications. We measured changes in bmi between examinations. Unexpected weight loss is often noticed in people prior to a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes but it may also affect people with type 2 diabetes when to call your doctor if you have unintentionally lost more than 5 of your normal body weight or more than 10 lbs 4 5 kg in 6 12 months or less you should consult your doctor.