Diabetes is Ravaging the World

Wed, 05 Oct 2011
The World Health Organisation has estimated that there are 346 million diabetics across the world.

Most diabetes sufferers are in low and middle income countries.

The WHO predicts that should present trends continue deaths from diabetes are likely to double by 2030. Health experts predict that it could become a global epidemic with considerable significant health and economic outcomes.

There are also many millions of people who are living with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes the most frequent type of this disease.

Epidemics are not just of infectious diseases. There is also a diabetes epidemic worldwide. In the USA at least one in four people have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes .

Type 2 diabetes adversely affects the body's ability to utilise insulin, the hormone which regulates blood sugar. The disease can damage the eyes, heart, nerves and kidneys.

The cost associated with diabetes in the USA is around $174 billion per annum, mainly for treatment of associated complications and disabilities.

Forecasts made emphasise that by 2050 that a third of Americans could have diabetes.

Across the world there are 50 million diabetics in India, 40 million in China, and 26 million in the USA of which 90 per cent have type 2 diabetes. This is intimately related to age, obesity, race and ethnic factors.

Those of South Asian descent are particularly likely to develop diabetes at a lower body weight .

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