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The number of people living with diabetes worldwide has quadrupled in the past two decades, with 830 million people diagnosed as of 2022. Experts weigh in on the risk. Diabetes rates have ...
Diabetes was the 9th-leading cause of mortality globally in 2020, attributing to over 2 million deaths annually due to diabetes directly, and to kidney disease due to diabetes. [2] The primary causes of type 2 diabetes is diet and physical activity, which can contribute to increased BMI, poor nutrition, hypertension, alcohol use and smoking ...
The act authorized diabetes research and training centers, and an intergovernmental diabetes coordinating committee that included representatives from the NIAMDD and six other NIH Institutes. January 1975 —The National Arthritis Act of 1974 (P.L. 93—640) was signed into law to further research, education, and training in the field of ...
An estimated 382 million people worldwide had diabetes in 2013 [159] and from 108 million in 1980. [160] Accounting for the shifting age structure of the global population, the prevalence of diabetes is 8.8% among adults, nearly double the rate of 4.7% in 1980. [161] [160] Type 2 makes up about 90% of the cases.
Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90%-95% of all cases. [1] In 2017, approximately 24.7 million people were diagnosed with diabetes in the United States, approximately 7.6% of the total population (and 9th in the world). [2] Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, non-traumatic lower-limb amputations, and blindness in adults.
World Diabetes Day (WDD) is a global awareness campaign led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), observed on November 14 yearly. It focuses on diabetes mellitus and promotes awareness about the disease. Type 2 diabetes is preventable and treatable, while Type 1 diabetes is manageable with insulin injections.
Prevalence of diabetes in Indian states in 2016 [1] India has an estimated 212 million [2] people with diabetes out of 828 million globally. One in four people (26%) in the world with diabetes is from India, making it the most affected country in the world. [3] (India’s population as calculated in November 2024 was about 17.78% of the global ...
According to the WHO, worldwide, about 0.5 million deaths are attributable to uses of drugs, with more than 70% of these being related to opioids, with overdose being the direct cause of more than 30% of those deaths. [40] Various uses of various opioids accounts for many deaths worldwide, termed opioid epidemic. Nearly 75% of the 91,799 drug ...