Type 2 diabetes causes 50% faster muscle loss in legs of elderly
Do you, or your care recipient have type two diabetes?
If so then you might be interested in knowing that it is not just you (or them) that is having trouble with things like walking for very long or getting up even short flights of stairs.
A study on seniors with (type 1 and 2) diabetes, and those without it, was conducted and the results of the study printed in Diabetes Care. The study determine that older adults with type 2 diabetes have an accelerated loss of leg muscles strength and quality as compared to those without diabetes. They detected no difference between those with and without diabetes in the strength and quality of muscles in the arms.
What this means is that if you, or your care recipient, has no trouble with getting up to go do something but then finds that they have to sit down and just have no more strength, or while shopping are constantly looking for a bench to sit on, then it might be because of type two diabetes effecting the muscles in your (or their) legs.
The study was conducted on 1,840 older adults aged 70–79 years. The leg and arm muscle mass and strength was examined at baseline and then again three years later.
Dr. Seok Won Park, the lead investigator on the study, told Reuters Health:
I will be keeping an eye on this subject, since my mom has type two diabetes and has problems with reduced strength in her leg muscles. Keep an eye out here for additional information on this as I locate it. (I'll file it all under 'Diabetes'.)
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Sources:
Reuters Health
Seok Won Park, Bret H. Goodpaster, Elsa S. Strotmeyer, Lewis H. Kuller, Robert Broudeau, Candace Kammerer, Nathalie de Rekeneire, Tamara B. Harris, Ann V. Schwartz, Frances A. Tylavsky, Yong-wook Cho, Anne B. Newman, and for the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study
Accelerated Loss of Skeletal Muscle Strength in Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study
Diabetes Care 30: 1507-1512; published online before print as 10.2337/dc06-2537
If so then you might be interested in knowing that it is not just you (or them) that is having trouble with things like walking for very long or getting up even short flights of stairs.
A study on seniors with (type 1 and 2) diabetes, and those without it, was conducted and the results of the study printed in Diabetes Care. The study determine that older adults with type 2 diabetes have an accelerated loss of leg muscles strength and quality as compared to those without diabetes. They detected no difference between those with and without diabetes in the strength and quality of muscles in the arms.
What this means is that if you, or your care recipient, has no trouble with getting up to go do something but then finds that they have to sit down and just have no more strength, or while shopping are constantly looking for a bench to sit on, then it might be because of type two diabetes effecting the muscles in your (or their) legs.
The study was conducted on 1,840 older adults aged 70–79 years. The leg and arm muscle mass and strength was examined at baseline and then again three years later.
Dr. Seok Won Park, the lead investigator on the study, told Reuters Health:
elderly adults with diabetes lose leg muscle strength about 50 percent faster than their peers without diabetes.
I will be keeping an eye on this subject, since my mom has type two diabetes and has problems with reduced strength in her leg muscles. Keep an eye out here for additional information on this as I locate it. (I'll file it all under 'Diabetes'.)
_____________________
Sources:
Reuters Health
Seok Won Park, Bret H. Goodpaster, Elsa S. Strotmeyer, Lewis H. Kuller, Robert Broudeau, Candace Kammerer, Nathalie de Rekeneire, Tamara B. Harris, Ann V. Schwartz, Frances A. Tylavsky, Yong-wook Cho, Anne B. Newman, and for the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study
Accelerated Loss of Skeletal Muscle Strength in Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study
Diabetes Care 30: 1507-1512; published online before print as 10.2337/dc06-2537
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