JCEM: Relationship between stuttering and type 2 diabetes

An interesting study was published recently in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, an authoritative journal in the field of endocrine and metabolic diseases, to investigate the relationship between stuttering during adolescence and type 2 diabetes in young adults.
this population-based national study included 2193,855 adolescents aged 16-20 who had served in the military between 1980 and 2013.
subjects needed to be diagnosed by a speech pathologist during puberty stuttering.
as of December 31, 2016, each person's diabetes status was obtained by contacting israel's National Diabetes Registry.
researchers used regression models for socioeconomic variables, cognitive abilities, complications, and adolescent BMI-adjusted regression to analyze their correlations.
the analysis by sex (interaction P-0.035).
of the 4,443 adolescent men (0.4%) who stuttered, 162 (3.7%) had type 2 diabetes, compared with 25,678 (2.1%) of men who did not stutter (with an adjusted ratio of 1.3, 95% CI of 1.1-1.6).
The relationship persisted when male brothers who did not stutter were in the control group (adjusted OR=1.5, 95% CI was 1.01-2.2), or when the analysis included only adolescents with unaffected health status when the baseline was included (adjusted OR=1.4, 95% CI was 1.1-1.7).
7 out of 503 (0.1%) of stuttering women (1.4%) developed type 2 diabetes, compared with 10,139 (1.1%) of women who did not stutter (OR=2.03, 95% CI 0.48-2.20).
showed that stuttering in adolescents was associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes in men with early hair.