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

What do we need to consider?

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