There is evidence that air pollution causes or accelerates the degenerative process of the organs in patients with type 2 diabetes because this little antioxidant defenses.
The presence of oxidants in the atmosphere, which react together to generate nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and oxygen in the presence of ultraviolet rays of the sun, which causes the damage, said Luz Maria Arietta, specialist in the treatment of obesity and diabetes.
A person with diabetes usually suffers from oxidative stress, which is a process characterized by a biochemical imbalance between production of free radicals (RL) and antioxidants.
“People with diabetes have fewer defenses against free radicals and accumulation of sugar leads to problems of oxidation, causing metabolic changes that will translate into disease. This process develops slowly, but steadily,” said Arietta.
Free radicals are highly reactive molecules, and the consequence of these reactions produces a disruption in the cell membranes of our body. This disorder is lethal to cells, tissues and systems.
Evidence of association between the RL and diabetes is mainly two types of studies that show that the damage caused by oxygen radicals is increased significantly and the investigations that have found abnormalities in the antioxidant defenses of these patients.
In a diabetic hyperglycemia antioxidant defenses degrades RL allowing other molecules or even damage structural proteins.
The country has an average delay of 4 to 7 years in diagnosing type 2 diabetes, which means that 20 percent of patients had some evidence of micro vascular complications, often the product of the RL, as neuropathy, nephropathy and diabetic retinopathy at diagnosis.
That scenario, coupled with factors such as a poorly balanced diet, overweight and obesity, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, pollution, exposure to sunlight, stress and insomnia, threatening people with diabetes.
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