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Diabetes

Diabetes increases the risk of UTIs by two to three-fold compared to non-diabetic controls.1,2

What do we know from the evidence?

A large cross-sectional Canadian Community Health Survey compared the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the spinal cord injury population with that of a non-SCI population. They found a two-fold increase in the odds of type-2 diabetes in the spinal cord injury population.3

This means that unexplained occurrences of UTI may be related to undiagnosed diabetes.4

  1. Patterson J E and Andriole V T, Bacterial urinary tract infections in diabetes. Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 1997;11(3):735–750
  2. Nitzan O, Elias M, Chazan B et al., Urinary tract infections in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: review of prevalence, diagnosis, and management. Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Gerapy. 2015;8:129–136
  3. Cragg J J, Noonan V K, Dvorak M et al., Spinal cord injury and type 2 diabetes: results from a population health survey. Neurology. 2013;81(21):1864–1868
  4. Kennelly M, Thiruchelvam N, Averbeck MA et al., Adult neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction and intermittent catheterisation in a community setting: Risk factors model for urinary tract infections. Advances in Urology. 2019;Apr 2:1–13