People With Diabetes May Be More Likely To Develop Potentially Deadly Staph Blood Infections Than People Without Diabetes.

reported that “people with diabetes may be significantly more likely to develop potentially deadly ‘staph’ blood infections than those without diabetes,” a study published March 10 in the European Journal of Endocrinology suggests. After examining “the medical records of 30,000 people in Denmark over 12 years,” researchers discovered that “people with any form of diabetes were almost three times more likely to acquire a staph blood infection outside of a hospital, compared to those without diabetes.” That risk increased “to more than seven times higher among people with type 1 diabetes, and almost three times higher for those with type 2 diabetes.” http://consumer.healthday.com/diabetes-information-10/misc-diabetes-news-181/diabetes-can-raise-risk-for-dangerous-staph-infection-708908.html