This follows from the results published in the meeting of the American Society of Endocrinology held in Boston, after a study with more than 8,500 participants, which shows how the risk of diabetes increased by 13 percent in those who suffer hypothyroidism.
Prediabetes is a slight elevation of blood glucose that usually precedes the appearance of this disease.In fact, it is estimated that one in 10 will endrunning at a normal level.
"These findings suggest that their thyroid function would have to be analyzed with prediabetes to see if it is low," said Layal Chaker, author of the study.
The participants had an average age of 65 years and a blood test was performed to measure their blood sugar level and thyroid function.Analytics were repeated every two or three years to see if their situation had changed.
In this way, they saw that during an average follow -up of almost eight years a total of 1,100 participants developed prediabetes and 798 ended with type 2 diabetes.
Currently, experts recommend the screening of thyroid in people with type 1 diabetes, because they have a much higher risk of suffering a deterioration of this gland.However, although both type 2 diabetes and hypothyroidism are more frequent with age, the relationship between both disorders was not entirely clear.
Thyroid hormones are essential for the regulation of metabolism, which is the way in which the body transforms food into energy to burn or store it.Hypothyroidism slows this process and can cause a weight gain and previous investigations have related this disorder to a lower insulin hormone sensitivity, a type 2 diabetes risk factor.
