Already 350 million sufferers
More than 350 million people worldwide have diabetes - that is the result of a new international study has been published over the weekend in the prestigious medical journal "The Lancet".
By so doing, the number of diabetics worldwide doubled within 30 years, according to a report in the BBC study. The study authors do therefore especially the spread of Western eating habits in developing and emerging countries for the dramatic rise of diabetes responsibility. The result is that the obesity rate rises dramatically. The excess sugar in the blood (hyperglycemia) can lead to heart disease and a heart attack as well as in damage to kidneys, nerves and retina. Around three million people - so estimates - die every year as a result of diabetes.
Too little insulin
Obesity and poor diet is the main trigger for type 2 diabetes who suffer from around 85 to 95 percent of diabetics. The disease develops when the body does not produce enough insulin to break down the glucose. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, however.
In men and women
The study found the average blood sugar level worldwide in both men and women has increased. Using statistical methods, the authors concluded that currently 347 million people worldwide have diabetes, it was more than twice as much as a study in 1980 calculated, the "Observer". The figure is also significantly higher than those 285 million, which indicated a study in 2009. Explain the difference from the fact that now more accurate methods have been applied, Ezzati.
In percentage terms, the prevalence of diabetes increased in men in the three years from 8.3 to 9.8 percent and among women from 7.5 to 9.2 percent. Among the causes, the study authors estimate that about 70 percent of diseases are age-related decline 30 percent opposed to other factors, especially obesity.
Increasingly rapid spread
In addition to the overweight live longer plays a crucial role in the increase of cases of diabetes. "Diabetes is one of the leading causes of mortality, and our study has shown that it is almost everywhere more and more widespread," said Majid Ezzati study author from London's Imperial College over the weekend British newspaper "Observer". Ezzati warns explicitly warned that "diabetes is the biggest burden on the world health system," threatens to become. Many states would hardly cope with the consequences.
Martin Tobias of the New Zealand Ministry of Health therefore requested to quickly install a global surveillance system. When funded by WHO and the Gates Foundation study were 2.7 people aged over 25 years examined in the entire world for three years. Doctors speak their blood sugar levels after they had fasted for twelve to 14 hours. This is because the blood sugar levels rise after eating.
With a blood glucose level less than 5.6 millimoles per liter (mmol / l), the examinees were considered healthy. Above a value of seven, they were classified as diabetic mmol. People with a value in between were therefore to be in pre-diabetes disease.
Crash diet for diabetes
In another study had been recently shown that the type 2 disease can be overcome within seven days if the parties comply with a crash diet and take daily for the period not more than 600 calories, the "Observer ".
Who is affected as much
In the last three decades in the United States took the blood sugar level to twice as fast as in Western Europe. In no country were down blood sugar levels. In industrialized countries, therefore, the USA, Malta, New Zealand and Spain, on average, the highest diabetes and blood sugar values. Austria, however, has along with the Netherlands and France the lowest. Currently, approximately 600,000 people in this country have diabetes, and the trend is also increasing.
Especially in the Pacific island states, the diabetes incidence rate has increased rapidly. In the Marshall Islands are already about one in three women and one man in four diabetics. In Saudi Arabia, the disease rate is very high, as in Latin America and South Asia. The lowest average blood sugar levels have therefore sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern and Southeastern Africa. In Eastern Europe, where the average blood glucose level has traditionally been relatively high, has changed little over the three decades.
Austrian Charter for diabetes
Also in Austria, the formerly "adult onset" disease called becoming a problem in children and adolescents - in particular by lack of exercise combined with too much junk food and convenience food. The Austrian Diabetes Association (ÖDG) first adopted a charter of these days, should be with the Austria-wide concerted approach towards the spread of the disease. Just as the international study warns ÖDG the front of the "drastic consequences for the affordability of the health system," should not now be found on the right track.
Links:
Summary of the study ("The Lancet")
"Observer" article
BBC article
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