Young diabetics need to contend with faster decline of condition

This point became evident after an exhaustive study spanning seven years that tracked 1200 patients suffering type-2 diabetes. The finding revealed that HbA1c levels had slumped from 7.6 to 6.3 percent during the first year; subsequently during the rest of the six years, the levels of HbA1c shot up from 6.3 to 7.0 percent. Additionally the patients needed insulin therapy after 2.5 years from onset of diabetes. It was also observed that after 7 years nearly 47% of the study subjects required insulin therapy. Delving into the non-genetic causes of such a phenomenon, researchers found that early onset diabetes or the age of a patient during diagnosis of the disease has a bearing on the fluctuation in HbA1 c levels over a period of time. It became clear that patients who contracted diabetes before 50 years of age experienced a sharp increase in HbA1c levels .