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Sleep apnea and blood sugar have a pretty significant relationship — and not a friendly one. When breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep, it triggers a chain of events that make it harder for your body to manage glucose.
Here are the main ways sleep apnea can raise blood sugar:
- Low oxygen levels — Drops in Show Full Answer
@A DiabetesTeam Member Diabetes does not cause other diseases necessarily, but since Type 2 is a metabolic disorder with lots of different hormones involved it can leave us "more susceptable" to a whole host of other disorders
Not caused by each other, but they do work against each other
With sleep apnea about 2 out of 10 who experience that are "also" diabetic
And since about 2 out of 10 people in the general population are Diabetic that shows that sleep apnea is NO MORE COMMON in Diabetics than Non-Diabetics, so there is no cause/effect
Likewise Depression does tend to effect 1 in 4 diabetics, but it effects 1 in 2.5 oncology patients and about 1 in 12 in the general population
Comorbidities (two different chronic conditions) mostly exist "separately" from each other in terms of cause and treatment, but they can make dealing with each more challenging - treatments may be opposite or make one of the conditions worse
But just because you are Diabetic DOES NOT MEAN that you are very prone or will get another condition "because of the Diabetes" (unless of course it is a Diabetic Complicaton such as Peripheral Neuoropathy caused by high blood sugar, or Vascular Dementia, which looks like Alzheimers but is caused likewise, by high blood sugar....
Then a diabetic can cause a whole lot of things sleep acne
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