диабулимия

[Melnichenko]

"Diabulimia" is a little known but dangerous practice in which type 1 diabetes patients, mostly women, withhold insulin in order to lose weight.

The American College of Endocrinology (ACE) has produced a short instructional video about diabulimia with the message that the disorder can be overcome.

Although the term diabulimia is relatively new, the disorder is not, Jeffrey R. Garber, MD, a past president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), told MedPage Today.

He first encountered the disorder years ago, when a group of patients with diabetes seemed to be experiencing diabetic complications, such as gastropathy and autonomic neuropathy, that were much too early for the course of their disease.

"These complications were typically seen in patients who had the disease for 10 to 20 years. But these women had it for less than 10 years," said Garber, who is at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

What all these women with type 1 diabetes had in common was an eating disorder, he said.

One study of 234 women with type 1 diabetes found that 30% reported restricting insulin at some point in their lives to lose weight (Diabetes Care 2008; 31: 415–419).

After following the women for 11 years, the researchers found that those who restricted insulin had increased rates of diabetes complications, shortened lifespan, and increased mortality risk.

Factors that were associated with insulin restriction included greater eating disorder symptoms, diabetes-specific distress, overall psychological symptoms, and fear of hypoglycemia at baseline.

[ZSV]

30% - довольно большая цифра - почти треть. И вот интересно, а эти 30% были ли в свое время полностью осведомлены о всех рисках и осложнениях СД1 и введении инсулина? Так ли полно доносилась до них информация, как до других 70%?