Sonya Sotomayor Has Diabetes
13 May 2009, 6:38 PM. By x111e7thst
Judge Sonia Sotomayor of U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, is a Type One diabetic.
Should this matter?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/13/sotomayors-medical-histor_n_203032.html
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I think it’s a positive. She may have an interest in encouraging aggressive scientific discovery like stem cell research.
What about the impact on her life expectancy and general health?
“Before insulin was discovered, people with type 1 diabetes would frequently die very early after diagnosis due to a medical emergency called diabetic ketoacidosis. Now it is very uncommon for ketoacidosis to result in death. The major conditions that shorten peoples` lives with diabetes now are heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and infection. Rates of loss of life due to these causes are greater in people with diabetes than in those without diabetes. However, careful control of blood sugar, blood pressure and blood fats (cholesterol, triglycerides) can reduce the likelihood of these events.”
http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/26288.htm