Could Marijuana Reduce Diabetes Risk?

Smoking marijuana — even if the ensuing junk-food binge can’t be avoided — may mean you’re less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, according to research published in The American Journal of Medicine.

Fasting insulin and glucose data from 4,657 National Health and Nutrition Survey participants revealed that “current users” of marijuana were part of the least likely demographic to have common risk factors for diabetes.

Marijuana smokers who admitted to being “current users” — not previous users — had the lowest fasting insulin and glucose levels and body mass index. High fasting insulin levels are considered evidence of insulin resistance —  the inability of the body to respond properly to insulin - a risk factor for pre-diabetes.

“Previous epidemiologic studies have found lower prevalence rates of obesity and diabetes mellitus in marijuana users compared to people who have never used marijuana, suggesting a relationship between cannabinoids and peripheral metabolic processes, but ours is the first study to investigate the relationship between marijuana use and fasting insulin, glucose, and insulin resistance,”  stated lead investigator Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH, of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, in a press release.

Despite the common stereotype of marijuana users craving high-calorie food and lots of it — “the munchies” — pot use was also linked to having a lower body mass index in the study, another factor not often associated with diabetes.

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Psoriasis Linked to Diabetes

Psoriasis patients may be at an increased risk for type 2 diabetes, and the risk appears to be greatest among patients with severe psoriasis, researchers reported here.

Compared with the general population, patients with mild psoriasis had a 49% increased risk of developing diabetes, and individuals with severe psoriasis had a 2.13-fold increased relative risk when compared with the general population (P<0.0001), Ole Ahlehoff, MD, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow in cardiology at Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, reported at the European Society of Cardiology meeting.

“Psoriasis is a common inflammatory disease affecting approximately 125 million people worldwide,” Ahlehoff said in a press briefing. He noted that previous studies have shown that patients with psoriasis are at a twofold risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, and death. One of those people afflicted by psoriasis is the happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic.

“I’ve been battling psoriasis for years, say Mr. Divabetic. “I know I am at greater risk of developing diabetes because of  my  family history of type 2 diabetes as well as a sibling living with type 1 diabetes but I didn’t know my skin condition was also a factor.”

“Diabetes and psoriasis share an underlying inflammatory process and an abundance of risk factors and therefore it is not surprising that psoriasis has been proposed as a risk factor for new onset diabetes,” he explained. “We therefore set out to test this hypothesis in a nationwide study of the entire Danish population since diagnosis of a risk factor for diabetes may allow for early detection and treatment.

He suggested that screening psoriasis patients once a year for diabetes would be reasonable, along with other classical cardiovascular risk factors such as cholesterol levels and high blood pressure

He said his findings support the hypothesis that an increased level of inflammation increases the risk of new onset diabetes. By Ed Susman, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today

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Worrying About Work? It Could Give You Diabetes

A certain amount of stress can be positive, but excessive workplace worries such as having little or no control over what you do on the job is a big factor in whether you develop diabetes, especially if you’re a woman, according to a Canadian study released today.

“How men and women react to stress is not totally clear, but it’s clear that in the work environment, stress can have an impact on health,”

Dr. Richard Glazier, one of the Toronto researchers who conducted the study published Tuesday, said in an interview with CBC News.

With diabetes a growing public health concern, Glazier and his research colleagues with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and the University of Toronto examined the relationships between the “psychosocial” work environment and the incidence of diabetes among people between ages 35 and 60 who weren’t self-employed. They note that there has been a large amount of work examining the relationship between the psychosocial work environment and high blood pressure and heart disease, but few studies examining work stress and the risk of diabetes risk.

Glazier said the study finding — that low levels of job control were associated with an increased risk of diabetes among women, but not among men — is consistent with the only other population-based study of this type, undertaken in Sweden.

Although it wasn’t determined why women are more at risk of diabetes because of workplace stress — a subject for followup research — there are some theories.

Glazier said women and men tend to react differently to stress and the type of jobs they do may also play a role. Women have a different hormonal makeup than men, may tend to turn to unhealthy habits like eating so-called comfort foods containing fat and sugar, and generally have less physical jobs.

“The mind and body are very connected, and the body releases stress hormones like epinephrine and cortisol,” he says. “These can help ward off threats, but when released constantly, they take a toll on the body and they really affect how the body handles sugars and fat, and can lead toward the development of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.”

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Jennifer Hudson Joins Cast of ‘Smash’

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson will join the cast of TV’s Smash for the Broadway-themed series second season. Hudson will appear in a multi-episode arc as Veronica Moore, a Tony-winning actress who affects the lives of budding Broadway performers Karen (Katharine McPhee) and Ivy (Megan Hilty). Smash is set to return to NBC in early 2013.

The happy healthcare host, Mr. Divabetic stops by the 66th Annual Tony® Awards at the Beacon Theater in New York to talk about divas, dazzle and diabetes.

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