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Diabetes currently affects more than 74 million Indians, which is more than 8.3% of the adult population. [1] It is estimated to be around 57% of the current cases of diabetes to be undiagnosed. [17] Among young and middle aged adults the prevalence of diabetes is 6.7% and prediabetes is 5.6% according to the National Family Health Survey-4. [18]
In 2012, diabetes caused 356,586 deaths in this region, a zone with the highest prevalence of diabetes in adults (11%) in the world. [16] Turkey reported a prevalence of 33.9% for metabolic syndrome (MS), with a higher prevalence in women (39.6%) than in men (28%). [17]
Genetic risk for type 2 diabetes changes as humans first began migrating around the world, implying a strong environmental component has affected the genetic-basis of type 2 diabetes. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] This can be seen from the adoption of the type 2 diabetes epidemiological pattern in those who have moved to a different environment as compared to ...
Rhazes (c. 865 –925), or Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, included writings about diabetes in the more than 230 books he produced in his lifetime. [33] Avicenna (980–1037), or Ibn Sina, was a court physician to the caliphs of Baghdad and a key figure in medicine who compiled an exhaustive medical encyclopedia titled The Canon of Medicine.
The Population Health Domain is examining the trends in diabetes and obesity prevalence and incidence, novel risk factors at a population level, and new therapeutic approaches to preventing and treating diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether the families of victims of terrorist attacks in Israel may sue the Palestinian Authority in federal court for hundreds of millions of dollars in ...
Inaccurate financial advice can hurt more than it helps, but even in particularly dire situations, it is possible to recover from financial mistakes. Just ask Dr. Jamila Davis.
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.