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