Recent data from the continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey has shown that periodontal infections were linked with elevated insulin resistance in a sample of men and women without diabetes.Yeah, that inflammation is evil. It's killing everyone. And if we research inflammation we'll have a decade or two before it's clear that's futile and we decide to figure out what causes the inflammation...
Previous studies have reported the presence of periodontal disease and its potential to increase the risk for incident type 2 diabetes and a five-fold increase in HbA1c levels, the researchers wrote.
“The potential for periodontal infections to contribute to insulin resistance and overt type 2 diabetes is biologically plausible, and one specific causal pathway linking infections and type 2 diabetes risk is chronically elevated systemic inflammation,” they wrote.
(notice they actually factor out the symptoms of infection)
Infection is a biologically plausible cause of illness. I love that.
Good Data. Same old conclusions.
Thanks to Denise for this.
