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People with diabetes also belong to the "risk group" for the development of cancerous tumors.
As Newsweek magazine reports, a group of scientists at the City of Hope research center also conducted numerous experiments to understand who is more prone to the development of cancer. They established that if a person has sugar in his blood, he is exposed to the formation of cancerous formations.
According to the author of the study, Professor John Termini, high blood glucose increases the risk of DNA damage.
"In people with high blood sugar, the DNA strands are very fragile, they break down faster and most of the time they don't repair themselves or they repair slowly. This often leads to genomic instability, which can be the cause of cancer," Termini said.
He noted that the more people in the world with diabetes, the more people will develop cancer.
He also noted that many medications taken by people with developing cancers lead to the development of diabetes, and conversely, diabetics are prescribed medications that accelerate the development of cancers.
