Global warming already widens the footprint of Lyme disease while Zika virus exacerbates asthma and lung diseases and increases the risks posed by violent weather and wildfires.

Now, new research suggests rising temperatures lead to a surge in diagnoses of type-2 diabetes.

The study, published Monday in the BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care , compared annual average temperatures across the United States from 1996 to 2009 with reported new cases of type-2 diabetes. The disease, which typically develops later in life, prevents the body from absorbing glucose needed to produce energy. In particularly hot years, the number of new diagnoses spiked.

When it gets warmer, there is higher incidence of diabetes, Lisanne Blauw , the studys co-author and a PhD candidate at the Netherlands-based Einthoven Laboratory, told The Huffington Post by phone on Tuesday. Its important to realize global warming has further effects on our health, not only on the climate.

Blauw and six other researchers from the Leiden University Medical Center and Delft University of Technology both in the Netherlands used data from 14 years of surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They capped the dataset at 2009, the year the CDC began including emails and mobile phones in its survey. The statistical models accounted for the passage of time and adjusted for age and seasonal temperatures changes. The study excluded Illinois, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, because data from those places was incomplete or unavailable, Blauw said.