The chronic disease marked by the body’s inability to produce enough insulin to break down sugar in food is known to cause serious complications such as stroke, kidney disease, blindness and heart disease.
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People with type 1 diabetes can’t produce insulin while people with type 2 diabetes can’t produce or use insulin well.
“It encourages us all as individuals to eat healthily, be physically active, and avoid excessive weight gain”, the World Health Organization diabetes report reads.
In its “Global report on diabetes” WHO found that the number of people living with diabetes is increasing around the world.
Around the world, 1.5 million deaths were caused by diabetes in 2012, the WHO report said.
Other research finds more than a third of US adults have prediabetes, a high blood sugar condition that may lead to diabetes.
Chan said even in the poorest settings, governments must ensure people make healthy choices and that health systems diagnose and treat those with diabetes.
Oleg Chestnov, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for non-communicable diseases, said many cases of diabetes can be prevented, and that measures for detecting and managing the condition exist.
In the USA, it’s estimated that almost 10 percent of adults have type 2 diabetes, although the number of new cases was slightly lower in 2014 than previous years.
Diabetes can be considered as the mother of many other diseases, Indonesia Health Minister Nila F. Moeloek said.
These include meeting Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.4, which calls for reducing premature death from NCDs, including diabetes, by 30% by 2030.
Type two diabetes is the most common form for those who live with it….it can start in adulthood and it’s linked with obesity, physical inactivity, and poor diet.
Over 350 million people worldwide are suffering from diabetes and the number is likely to be doubled in the next 20 years.
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The WHO has also called for “increasing access to diagnosis, self-management, education and affordable treatment” in low- and middle-income countries, where diabetes rates are particularly prevalent.
