Global Warming May Result In 100,000 More Diabetes Cases In The US Yearly, Analysis Suggests.

reports that global warming causing a 1°C rise in environmental temperature could result in 100,000 additional cases of diabetes in American adults. Relying on recent studies linking insulin sensitivity to temperature, Dutch scientists and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered “data on the prevalence of diabetes in all 50 states” and their average temperatures “for each year between 1996 and 2013” and “found that the higher the average temperature in a particular time and place, the higher the age-adjusted incidence of diabetes.” CNN (3/20, Howard) notes that the “study simply reveals an association between climate and diabetes, not a causation.” However, MedPage Today (3/20, Monaco) reports the researchers said “the results were unlikely to be merely due to interstate demographic, socioeconomic, or other differences,” but added that “part of the association can be causally explained by brown fat activity.” The findings were published in the journal BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-global-warming-diabetes-20170320-story.html