Diabetes is a Huge Health Concern

Tue, 11 Oct 2011
Diabetes is almost four times as common as every kind of cancer put together. It is fast becoming the 21st century's major public-health concern.

As you put weight on, so your risk of developing diabetes increases. An increase in BMI from 21 (healthy) to 35 (obese) means that you are 50 to 80 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes is becoming a crisis, an epidemic which could bring the health service down and the 21st century's key public-health concern.

There are 2.8m diabetics in the UK who have been diagnosed with the condition, with another 850,000 or so who are likely to have type 2 diabetes but are not aware they have.

Another 7m are defined as at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes; between 40% and 50% of them will continue to develop it.

By 2025, 5m plus people in the UK will be diabetic .

Cardiovascular disease is likely to kill just over half of type 2 diabetics . They are also likely to have a stroke in the first five years upon diagnosis as the population at large.

Nearly a third of people with the condition are going to develop kidney disease, with diabetes being the single biggest cause of end-stage kidney failure. Your chances of going blind are 20 times higher should you have diabetes.

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