Interesting facts about #Diabetes

Diabetes – Some Interesting Facts

Type-1 diabetes develops when the cells that make insulin in the pancreas are destroyed. Type-2 diabetes develops when your body doesn’t make enough insulin or when the cells that need insulin cannot use the insulin your body makes. Type-2 diabetes affects mostly adults.
A fasting blood sugar at or above 126 mg/dL or a random blood sugar at or above 200 mg/dL is diagnostic of diabetes and a fasting blood sugar of 100 to 125 mg/dL or a random blood sugar between 140 to 199 mg/dL is diagnostic of pre-diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association.
Risk factors for diabetes include being over 40, living a sedentary lifestyle, being overweight, and having a family history of diabetes.
Here is an interesting stat-sheet on diabetes:
1. An estimated 285 million people worldwide are affected by diabetes. With a further 7 million people developing diabetes each year, this number is expected to hit 438 million by 2030. [Canadian Diabetes Association]
2. India followed next by China and America have the maximum diabetes victims. [World Health Organization Reports -2000]
3. Number of cases of diabetes expected to increase in developing countries by 170 percent by 2025 [King H, et al. Global Burden of Diabetes - Diabetes Care, 1998]
4. The likelihood of developing type-2 diabetes and hypertension rises steeply with increasing body fatness. About 85 percent of people with diabetes are type-2, and of these, 90 percent are obese or overweight. [WHO statistics]
5. Women with diabetes have an 8 times greater risk of developing coronary heart disease. [World Heart Federation Fact-Sheet, 2002]
6. Up to 80% of people with diabetes die as a result of a heart attack or stroke. People with diabetes may develop heart disease 10 to 12 years earlier than individuals without diabetes, and die from these events at rates much higher than people without diabetes (3 times higher for men and 5 times higher for women). [Canadian Diabetes Association]
7. People with diabetes are almost three times more likely to have high blood pressure, obesity, or elevated blood cholesterol levels. [Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Life Study]
8. Improving cholesterol or blood lipids can reduce cardiovascular complications by 20-50 percent. [National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003]
9. Depression is twice as common in people with diabetes as in the general population, and it is also associated with poorer blood glucose management, health complications and decreased quality of life. [Canadian Diabetes Association]
Here are a few other facts related to diabetes:
1. Until June 23, 1997, type-1 diabetes was also called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM).
2. Brown rice is better than white rice at reducing the risk of type-2 diabetes, but whole grains are the most effective at lowering the risk. [A study presented at the American Heart Association's Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism Conference in San Francisco]
3. Infants getting formula that includes cows’ milk are more likely to develop (later in life) the immune reactions associated with juvenile-onset (type-1) diabetes than are babies getting a substitute. [Report presented at the 59th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association]
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