A comparative study of stress induced diabetes mellitus in mother and foreign language speakers

Death of β-cells has been suggested a common feature of diabetes including both types 1 and 2. expression of inflammatory cytokine especially il-1β triggers apoptosis of β-cell. progressive loss of these cells leads towards the diabetes.short-term as well as long term stress is also responsible for damaging of β-cells.the current study was designed to investigate the hypothesis that stress induces damaging of β-cells.total 110 teachers were selected for this study. 55subjectswere used to teach in motherlanguage and 55 were used to teach in foreign language. 55 healthy individuals served for control. blood pressure,glucose level and serum cortisol level were evaluated. the results were found to be statistically significant (p<0.05) in studied groups. it was concluded that stress during speaking the foreign language may affect the secretory defects of β-cells and lead to the diabetes.