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[Mike Freeman]

That's a hell of a large sample! NOT

Mike

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> Any thoughts?
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> Impairment of Self-Control in Type 2 Diabetics
>
> Type-2 diabetes, an increasingly common complication of obesity, is
> associated with poor impulse control. Researchers writing in BioMed
> Central's open access journal BioPsychoSocial Medicine suggest that
> neurological changes result in this inability to resist temptation,
> which may in turn exacerbate diabetes.
>
> Hiroaki Kumano, from Waseda University, Japan, worked with a team of
> researchers to assess response inhibition, a measure of self-control,
> in 27 patients with type-2 diabetes and 27 healthy controls. He said,
> "Patients with type 2 diabetes are required to make strict daily
> decisions; for example, they should resist the temptation of high-fat,
> high-calorie food, which is frequently cued by specific people, places
> and events. Appropriate behavior modification thus depends on the
> patient's ability to inhibit impulsive thoughts and actions cued by
> these environmental stimuli".
>
> In order to gauge the patients' ability to resist such impulsive
> behavior, the researchers used a test in which participants had to
> quickly press a button in response to the correct signal on a computer
> screen, while pressing the button in response to the wrong symbol
> counted against their score. They found that patients with diabetes
> performed significantly worse at the test, suggesting that they
> struggled to control the impulse to press the button. Other results
> showed that the inhibitory failure observed in diabetic patients was
> mainly explained by cognitive impairment of impulsivity control,
> rather than by deficits in motor performance, error monitoring and
> adjustment. According to Kumano, "This suggests the possibility that
> the neuropsychological deficits in response inhibition may contribute
> to the behavioral problems leading to chronic lifestyle-related
> diseases, such as type 2 diabetes".
>
> Notes:
> Decreased response inhibition in middle-aged male patients with type 2 
> diabetes
> Kaya T Ishizawa, Hiroaki Kumano, Atsushi Sato, Hiroshi Sakura and
> Yasuhiko Iwamoto
> BioPsychoSocial Medicine (in press)
> Article available at journal website: http://www.bpsmedicine.com/
>
> Source:
> Graeme Baldwin
> BioMed Central
>
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