How A Global Epidemic Kills 1.5 Million A Year

The two most common forms of diabetes in people are Type 1 and Type 2, and most diabetic cats have a form that mimics human Type 2 diabetes. “This means that the steps we take to steer clear of type 2 diabetes are the same steps we can take to maintain good health”.

Dr James Brown, a diabetes research at Birmingham’s Aston University, said: ‘Better education around lifestyle choices, legislation around food and diet, and an increased drive to get people living a less sedentary lifestyle could lead to a significant reduction in the number of people going on to develop type 2 diabetes.

However, she suspected more were being treated by Global Positioning System, on marae, or through community health services. “There is much all of us can do to minimize our risk of getting the disease and, even if we do get it, to live long and healthy lives with it”.

“The whole thing is just a massive timebomb waiting to go off”.

Dr Jamal Zafar said that furthermore, there was an increased prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in Pakistan with main risk factors identified as obesity, a family history of diabetes mellitus and hypertension. The youngest of them was 9 years old.

That doesn’t stop well-meaning people from telling parents of children with Type 1 diabetes that healthier habits can fix their children. Of these 2998 were Maori, 241 Pacific Islanders, 405 Indian and 8507 European or other.

14 is World Diabetes Day – a day observed across the world each year to help people learn about diabetes and prediabetes. Hayden is among more than 400 children and adults participating in US government-funded worldwide research investigating whether experimental insulin capsules can prevent or at least delay Type 1 diabetes. Like other non communicable diseases, the treatment of diabetes is expensive, because diabetic patients need treatment of diabetes as well as associated other diseases.

While a few people with high blood sugars from diabetes may have symptoms such as frequent urination, excessive thirst, extreme fatigue or blurry vision, most people with prediabetes and even early diabetes have no symptoms at all.

Projects such as the Western Bay of Plenty Primary Health Organisation Wellness Diabetes Course, available free of charge to those newly diagnosed or on insulin, were making a difference, she said. Physical exercise is also important to control blood glucose along with or without medications and healthy eating.

Dr Tony Farrell, a GP at Mount Medical, said he was seeing a steady increase in diabetes cases each year.

The secretary-general made the appeal in his message for World Diabetes Day, which falls on November 14.

CVD is a major complication of diabetes and the leading cause of early death among people with diabetes – about 65 per cent of people with diabetes die from heart disease and stroke. “But what is necessary is a balanced diet and exercise, as people have a busy life style and don’t have a uniform work schedule”.