The diabetes prevalence fact

Diabetes is a serious global public health problem, and the rapid development of people's health a growing threat to developing countries, causing great loss of labor. Unreasonable diet and lack of exercise in diabetic patients is the world's key reasons for rapid increase. Type 2 diabetes in patients with diabetes accounted for more than 90%.

In 2005, more than 180 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, it is envisaged that by 2030, this figure should increase by 2 times, about 290 million people worldwide die from diabetes.

80% of diabetes deaths occur in low and middle income countries. Globally, every 10 seconds a person died of diabetes, at the same time there are 2 in 10 individuals with diabetes. Diabetes each year increase in the number of 7,000,000 in the world with the generation of the number of diabetes will be more than 350 million people, and most concentrated in Asia. ,35-64 in developing countries, the age groups, each at least 10 people died in a diabetic. And even in some areas as much as one fifth.

Diabetes younger, an increase of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, leading to premature death.

The death of about 50% of diabetic population aged 70 years of age, 55% are women.

The elderly (over 65 years of age) is the population aged 20-40 with diabetes risk by 10 times. By 2007, Europe will have one-third of the population aged over 50 years of age will be 60-79-year-old crowd will be the highest incidence of diabetes in patients with the crowd. However, in some other regions such as South America, Southeast Asia and Western Pacific Region, 40-59-year-old diabetic population will suffer a high incidence of severe attacks.

The number of people die each year from diabetes is much higher than the number of people died of AIDS.

Diabetes can cause complications in many organs, including heart, eye, kidney, nerve damage and stroke. Poor, vulnerable populations are in risk insurance.

The world every 30 seconds as a result of diabetes and amputations. It is estimated that at least 85% of amputations can be avoided.

In developed countries, diabetes is the blind and visually impaired adults, the main reason.

The elderly are often not only the economic constraints (in developing countries, 80% of the elderly do not have a fixed income), but also in need of medical and health care. More prominent is that the activities of limited information on the scarcity of such factors as distance makes the elderly unable to obtain appropriate health care of diabetes.

On the other hand the vicious cycle of diabetes also have an impact on society and the family. By 2007, the world of diabetes and its complications is estimated that medical costs will reach 215-375 billion U.S. dollars, while the majority of costs are occurring in developed countries.

It is estimated that in developing countries, those poor people with diabetes will be 25% of annual income spent on medical costs of diabetes. In this way, causing more economic hardship for people in poverty and had to choose: either because the doctor and the debt-ridden, or to endure pain and face disability or death.