High Blood Sugar a Global Killer

High blood sugar is among the world's top five killers, according to a Harvard University study.  High blood sugar is one sign that a person is on the road to causing his/her body to contract diabetes.  Even worse is that many people eating themselves into this situation die from a heart attack, stroke, and similar calamities long before they ever get diabetes

Moreover, blood sugar levels start causing problems once they pass the higher-than-normal level. It is not a matter of getting the diabetic disease at a certain point. It is a matter of the overall poor health effects of many other ever-increasing disease risks.

This problem is so large that the Harvard study looked at 52 nations and found that the worldwide high blood sugar is linked to 3,160,000 deaths each year.  That is more as one in five deaths from heart disease, and one in eight from stroke worldwide are attributable to higher-than-optimum blood sugar levels.

This alarming 3.16 million annual deaths attributed to high blood sugar joins a wicked group of life robbers.  As an annual cause of death, it is right up there with smoking at 4.8 million deaths per year, high cholesterol at 3.9 million deaths per year, and it easily passes overweight/obesity at 2.4 million deaths per year.

The researchers note that high blood sugar is a particular problem in low- and middle-income populations. Whereas, it is not the actual level of income that is the driver, but the lack of health awareness and concern among this group.