Insulin high blood sugar and insulin resistance significantly increase the risk of functional and structural heart failure during adolescence development in young adult life.

This is found by a study by scientists from the US, Switzerland, Australia, the United Kingdom and Finland, the results of which were published in Diabetes Care.

The study attended 1,595 teenagers from the age of 17 to 24 years. Two alternatives, a more stricter price limit of or equal to 5.6 mmol/L recommended by the US Diabetic, and the limit of above 6.1 mmol/L, which is currently present in many countries, were used to evaluate the incidence of diabetics.

Overall, 6.2% of 17 -year -old teenagers had fasting sugar over 5.6 mmol/l, which increased almost five times as much as 26.9% to the age of 24. Only 1.1% of adolescents had a level of over 6.1 mmol/l, but the incidence increased five times as much as 5.6% to the age of 24 years.

The incidence of excessive growth of heart walls (left ventricular hypertrophy) increased three times that of 2.4% at the age of 17 to 7.1% at the age of 24 years, while the incidence of cardiac dysfunction increased from 9.2% in adolescence to 15.8% in young adult life.

The persistent high fasting sugar above 5.6 mmol/L from the age of 17 to 24 years was associated with a 46% increased risk of left ventricle hypertrophy. The risk was three times the fasting sugar was stubbornly over 6.1 mmol/l. High blood sugar also reduced the relaxation of the heart muscle, altered normal cardiac function and excessively increased the pressure of blood flow that returned to the heart. Insulin resistance was associated with 10% increased risk of premature and worsening heart damage, more so in women.

“The five -fold increase in the incidence of predictation within seven years of development from adolescence to young adult life highlights the critical importance of lifestyle behavior and eating habits, especially after the independence of adolescents by their family,” says Mr. Finland.