Diabetes – the new Global Pandemic
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What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas can no longer make insulin, or when the body cannot make good use of the insulin it produces.
Not producing insulin or using it effectively leads to raised glucose levels in the blood (known as hyperglycaemia). Over the long-term high glucose levels are associated with damage to the body and failure of various organs and tissue.
The terrible reality
According to the reports of The International Diabetes Federation, approximately 463 million adults (20-79 years) are living with diabetes 240 million of them are undiagnosed.
The total number of people living with diabetes will rise to 578 million by 2030 and 700 million by 2045.
Every 11th person in the world has diabetes. About 2 million people die from diabetes each year.
Diabetes caused at least USD 966 billion dollars in health expenditure – 9% of total spending on adults.
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