Why was this funded?
Hey everybody,
I just came across this news article that makes me a little bit furious. A study was conducted to determine whether or not inactive type 1 diabetics had worse control than their active counterparts.
I'm not kidding. Here's the link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-kids-who-watch-more-tv...
This angers me generally as a diabetic, and also as one who works for an organization trying to achieve a cure ( the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance). There's a ton of money in the system for beneficial research, and it's a shame that any would go to something like this ( though the article doesn't go into funding specifics).
Honestly, I'm pretty sure that common sense and five minutes thought could've produced the same educated conclusion that those who are less active will have worse H1C's.
I just came across this news article that makes me a little bit furious. A study was conducted to determine whether or not inactive type 1 diabetics had worse control than their active counterparts.
I'm not kidding. Here's the link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-kids-who-watch-more-tv...
This angers me generally as a diabetic, and also as one who works for an organization trying to achieve a cure ( the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance). There's a ton of money in the system for beneficial research, and it's a shame that any would go to something like this ( though the article doesn't go into funding specifics).
Honestly, I'm pretty sure that common sense and five minutes thought could've produced the same educated conclusion that those who are less active will have worse H1C's.
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Permalink Reply by Gerri on -
What's even more ridiculous is that this research yielded no conclusions as to why. Doing a study on kids with diabetes & not even examining their diet?
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Permalink Reply by Nick Masercola on -
It's true, this study has all sorts of fundamental issues, and rings as a "scare-piece" designed to simply make parents more worried about their children.
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Permalink Reply by Tim on -
There's a trillion studies going on at any point in time looking for correlations between any of hundreds of things and any other of hundreds of things.
I myself have three school age kids and I personally am not happy with the amount of time they spend in front of the computer or watching TV. I know it has nothing to do with their diabetes control because they don't have diabetes but still, it requires active effort as a parent to make sure kids are doing something useful and healthy and productive instead of looking at a computer screen (like I'm doing right now!)
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Permalink Reply by Nick Masercola on
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It's true, and it's only going to get harder to keep them away from a screen as more and more essential services move to the internet. As an writer and an avid gamer, i'm in front of screens alot lol, but I was lucky enough to learn the importance of balancing it out. Keep teaching 'em and they'll get the picture.
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Permalink Reply by Timothy on -
My daughter does not watch TV or use the computer during the week at all. All of her friends think I am crazy. She has perfectly normal weight and is not diabetic.
She plays outside most of the time because inside is completely boring, the way it should be. ( once in a while he needs to look something up on the computer, but that's allowed,) She also writes with a pen or pencil instead of typing things,
It sounds harsh but she is used to it and she plays a lot outside instead.I never thought i would do this, but After I became a parent I changed my views on the woes of sedintary lifestyles.
I also hate studies that are meaningless, but you need to know that the scientific community encourages things that have not been studied before and things that are small specific and easily domomstrated. Thats why we see so many odd things being funded.
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Permalink Reply by DrewG on -
Sounds like the equivalent of telling me the sky is blue or that water is wet - it's enough to make your head hurt. Bottom line is that the person or organization funding this couldn't possibly have expected some kind of earth shattering results. Any responsible diabetic or person with knowledge of the disease understands physical activity and trying to staying in shape are some of the most fundamental tenants of good diabetes management.
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Permalink Reply by Lila on -
Oh dear. I think there was a similar rubbish study recently purporting to show that the more TV you watch, the higher your risk of Type 2.
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Permalink Reply by Randy on -
I would consider myself a fairly inactive T1. I have never been an athletic person. Due to PN it is difficult for me to do more than a little walking around. I mow the lawn and do some chores, but follow no real exercise routine. At the same time I stay between 95 and 139 most of the time and my last A1c was 5.4. I do MDI and usually take between 4 & 8 units of Apidra per day.
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Permalink Reply by Kari on -
To piggyback off this, I don't think this is a definite 'all the time' correlation.
I'm extremely inactive. Any activity (even walking up and down stairs) can cause my retinas to hemorrhage (I have retinopathy and my retinas are pretty sensitive to bleeding)) so I don't do much beyond being at work with my kindergartners (which is 'active' but not exercise). My A1cs are below 6...so despite my inactivity I consider myself to have great control.
Also, exercise is super hard for me because when I DO try, I go extremely low. Even walking 20-30 minutes at a moderate pace can drop my BG 100mg/dl.........talk about horrible control! I either have a nasty low, or I have to get my BG high before I can do any kind of exercise....
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Permalink Reply by Kelly WPA on -
I am another one that disagrees with the statement, “those who are less active will have worse H1C's.” Like Randy, I also have neuropathy. I use a walker because of that. I try to use my treadmill on a regular basis, but I also have periods of severe fatigue. I am just coming out of one of those and two weeks ago was the first time in months I have been on the treadmill. When I do get on the treadmill, I can’t walk very fast because of the neuropathy so even those days are very light activity. For the last 3 years, my A1cs have been in the 5s other than one at 6.1 when I had pump problems – that was still better than a lot of people have.
I would like to do a study of people with A1cs in the 5s and find out how active they are – I think you would be surprised at the answer because I know other very non-active people that have great A1cs.
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Permalink Reply by acidrock23 on -
I would like to see a study of people with A1Cs in the 5s as well, or < the recommended margin of safety that the ADA/ AMA/ AACE recommendations build into everything. Diabetes sucks and is hard regardless of what your A1C is but I prefer to try to beat it up!
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