The arguments of American specialists were published by the journal Lancet Planetary Health.

"The number of diabetics increases even with minimal air pollution. By the standards of WHO, such air will not be considered contaminated ", - quotes scientists.

For a long time it was believed that the decisive factor in the increase in the incidence of diabetes is malnutrition and obesity. But scientists have established: diabetics are becoming tendentious more even in regions where there are no problems with obesity.

In the course of the study, they compared the observations of the health of diabetics and healthy people with air pollution maps. It turned out that where the air is dirtier, with diabetes more.

"In regions where pollution is 10 micrograms per cubic meter, diabetes is 21% more likely to suffer," the authors of the project.

Their calculations show: because of dirty air, the number of people with diabetes each year increases by more than three million.

Diabetes mellitus is a disease associated with inadequate production of the hormone of the pancreas of insulin. With a lack of insulin or insensitivity to the body tissues in the blood, the level of glucose increases, which is dangerous for almost all body systems.

Source: MedicoForum.