World Diabetes Day, 14 November; 350 million people suffer the chronic disease

“Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is very important”, Dr Khan said. It is possible to have high blood sugar levels but not full-blown diabetes mellitus. The glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1C) test – which indicates long-term blood sugar control for these children – should be not more than 7.5.

“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 statement said. “According to IDF, there are 382 million diabetics in the world and India accounts for almost 69 million of them”. “Many who suffer complications lose their incomes because they can not work”.

If you experience one or more of the following signs, you might be suffering from diabetes.

While type 2 is a disease, it is, in most cases, influenced by lifestyle.

The charity is announcing more than £3million in funding for research to see how blood vessels function and develop therapies to cut the chance of people with diabetes dying early from heart disease. “The private sector can improve the availability and affordability of healthier products and essential medicines”.

A target to reduce by one-third the number of deaths from non-communicable diseases such as diabetes was included in the new Sustainable Development Goals adopted last September.

Preventing diabetes is part of the mission of the global Diabetes Federation – creator of the annual World Diabetes Day. “Let us all step up to limit the impact of diabetes”. November 14 is World Diabetes Day (WDD), an awareness day that shines the spotlight on the complications of diabetes and the prevention of the disease.

Meanwhile, the medical experts have said that Diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate in Pakistan, and have called for collaborative efforts among diabetic patients, healthcare professionals and healthcare policymakers.

“It is also important that the NHS do more to tackle the postcode lottery of care that exists and that everyone with diabetes gets the education they need to successfully manage their condition”.

There are two main forms of diabetes. “Gestational diabetes occurs because these hormones also block the action of the mother’s insulin”, said Tandon, adding that the hormones of pregnancy causes resistance to the actions of insulin and lead to higher blood sugar levels in women who have risk factors for diabetes.

In this registry-based study, researchers included patients with type 2 diabetes who were registered in the Swedish National Diabetes Register on or after January 1998.

Dr Richard Cubbon, from the University of Leeds, is hoping to find a new way to treat the blood vessel damage associated with diabetes.