Saturday, July 16, 2011

The Number Of Diabetics Increased In The World

                     
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   The medical journal "Launsay" published a report about the study of diabetes that shows the double number of diabetes patients after 1980 in the world. The disease is commonly known as sugar.Under the joint research of Imperial College London and Howard University America, statistical data of  2.7 million patients were collected for observation through the latest statistical techniques.The number of fatal kind of diabetes patients has increased from 1.5 million to 3.5 million. The authorss suggest better diagnosis and awareness among the people to control the rise in the number of patients. One third women in the Marshal Island are suffering from the disease. Majid Ezzati of Imperial college says that diabetes is widely spreading in the world. He added that it needs immediate diagnosis, loss of weight and awareness among the people otherwise this disease will keep on being a burden on health system.
     Researchers say that the kidneys can be damaged due to due to high level of sugar in the blood or blindness may occur, it can also affect heart and can cause paralysis.  In the research type I and type -II diabetes were studied and it was found that majority of the patients were suffering from type -II disease. This type is related to life style and obesity. Among the developed countries the disease is wide spread in the USA, where it is less in European countries. The expenses on the medicines for the treatment of the disease amount to Lbs 22 billion in the world and that are likely to rise to as high as lbs 30 billion by 2015.The number of patients in Britain is lower  though but doctors warn the people to be careful about it. According to a charity organization type -II is on the rise in Britain due ro obesity and at present 0.8 million people are suffering from the disease but they unaware of it.      

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