Diabetes is a global epidemic
Did you know that? The latest estimates in 2012:
◾More than 371 million people have diabetes.
◾Half of people with diabetes are undiagnosed.
◾4.8 million people died due to diabetes.
◾More than 471 billion USD were spent on healthcare for diabetes.
In the Eastern Mediterranean Region
too, there has been a rapid increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus,
mainly of type 2. It is now the fourth leading cause of death in the Region and
an estimated 22 million people have diabetes out of a total adult population of
290 million.
The urbanization and continuing nutritional change
from a healthy Mediterranean diet to an increasingly western-style diet is
associated with reduced activity , obesity, and a loss of productive effect of
the traditional diet that risk factors increases the incidence of non
communicable disease including DM , cardiovascular diseases Hypertension and
cancer.
From Public health background I think we always should
think of polices for continuing integration of preventive health service for
early detection and control of DM
Overweight and obesity are the
major contributors to DM
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