Why is obesity easy to cause diabetes?

Obesity and diabetes are like twin brothers. Many people with long-term obesity are diagnosed with diabetes. Why is this? Many people are not clear. Let everyone know about it now.

Why is obesity easy to cause diabetes?

The underlying cause of diabetes caused by obesity is that organs that treat blood sugar in obese people are not sensitive to insulin and produce "insulin resistance."

Insulin is the most important hypoglycemic hormone in the human body. Only by relying on insulin, blood sugar can enter the cell and be used by the human body, while the glucose level in the blood is maintained within a certain range by insulin. However, when obesity occurs "insulin resistance", in order to meet the metabolic requirements, the pancreas must secrete insulin 5-10 times higher than the normal amount. That is to say, obese people need more insulin than normal people to get normal use of glucose. In order to overcome insulin resistance, the pancreas will synthesize a large amount of insulin, which causes the blood insulin level of obese people to be much higher than that of ordinary people. This is called "hyperprandemia".



In the early stage of obesity, hyperglycemia can be used to maintain the blood sugar level in the normal range. Subsequently, due to excessive work of the pancreas, the function of synthesizing insulin is gradually depleted, and insulin production is gradually insufficient to lower the blood sugar to a normal range. Over time, the pancreas is fatigued, and eventually insulin is not fully produced, resulting in diabetes.

Diabetes does not currently have a clear cure, but to some extent it can be prevented. The most important preventive measure is to maintain normal age and weight, to make a reasonable diet, and to actively participate in physical exercise. Prevention of diabetes should start with preventing obesity and start with children. Do everything possible to maintain normal age and weight to reduce the incidence of diabetes. It is worth noting that effective weight loss can prevent the occurrence of diabetes or significantly reduce the symptoms of diabetes.

If you are obese, if you are diagnosed with diabetes, then please pay attention to it, follow diabetes education, manage your diet, monitor blood sugar, exercise properly, and cooperate with medication.

At present, the only thing that can make diabetes patients get rid of medical treatment is weight loss surgery, so in some places, weight loss surgery is also considered as diabetes surgery. However, the patient must first be clear and meet the requirements of the weight loss surgery pointer:

1, body mass index in obesity with diabetes should be greater than 27.5kg / m2 [body mass index calculation method: weight (kg) divided by height (m), and then divided by height (m)].

2. The type of diabetes is type 2 diabetes.