Mexico.- Stress situations and poor diet are factors that could raise the risk for a person to suffer diabetes, a disease that affects more than 387 million people in the world, a specialists warned.
At present, eating habits such as the consumption of the so -called junk food such as soft drinks, juices, friedness, chocolates, sweets, cakes, cookies and simple carbohydrates, has the population of the sick world, said the doctor Click González Villalpando.
Labor stress 060615 (1) In addition, he added, a sedentary lifestyle, overweight, as well as the consumption of alcohol, cigar or other drugs, are elements that favor the development of diseases such as diabetes.
In an interview with the Informative Agency of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), González Villalpando explained that diabetes is a condition that is characterized by the elevation of glucose - consideration of “the gasoline” of the body - in the blood.
He mentioned that the increase in glucose occurs as a result of multiple metabolic disorders, organism reactions that are generated in a uncoordinated way and of which people do not perceive them because it does not hurt.
“Glucose elevation brings wear;This accumulates and eventually passes an invoice sometimes in one, two, three, sometimes in 15 years, ”said the specialist, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
The doctor said that the epidemic suffered by the Mexican population has two aspects from the epidemiological point of view: the risk transfers by the genetic background itself and obesogenic and diabetogens.
“There is a gene that confers up to 28 percent of excess risk of developing diabetes in our population.This gene, which we are studying its mechanism, is not properly characterized, but has to do with the transport of lipids, fats, in our body, ”he said.
According to the specialist and member Level III of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of the CONACYT, the obesogenic or diabetogens factors favor diabetes and other conditions such as obesity and cardiovascular risks.
In addition, González Villalpando mentioned that another fundamental element that can trigger diabetes and more diseases is stress.
"There are several investigations that point out that people, before developing diabetes, had an important duel: they lost a loved one, they lost a job, they had a bankruptcy, things of that nature," he said.
The researcher recalled that when the stress is intense, some hormones rise that raise glucose levels, such as adrenaline, cortisol and growth hormone.
“They are substances that we have to serve at the time to raise the level of glucose for a while.Imagine our ancestors: the Pitecántro, who was in the cave and suddenly appeared a bear, there his life was in danger and needed to have enough gasoline, that is glucose, to run or to attack, ”he said.
"What happens is that, sometimes, in life we face situations that last and last and last, and that kind of circumstance can maintain high levels of these hormones that we call counter -regulatory hormones, which raise the level of glucose," he added.
The endocrinologist considered that except type 1 diabetes that arises as a result of the absence or low existence of insulin and that is the hormone that favors the incorporation of blood glucose into the cells, the other types of diabetes could be avoided or controlled.
