2023-07-13 20:42:10
Type 2 diabetes has developed into a real widespread disease. More and more people suffer from a mild form, a preliminary stage or already have to resort to insulin. A research group from the University of Washington in Seattle has now published startling results. Accordingly, the number of patients has almost doubled in the past 30 years. These developments might continue in the coming decades. In your Studywhich the researchers published through the journal Diabetes Colloborators, they explain some possible numbers.
Global surge
In 1990, 3.2 percent of the world’s population had diabetes. Today it is 6.1 percent. An enormous increase that scares the doctors and researchers. According to the research group, around seven million people suffer from diabetes in Germany alone. The scientists describe that the number of cases of the disease is literally exploding all over the world: “In 2021 there were 529 million people living with diabetes worldwide.”
In their comparisons, they might not identify any region that stands out from the curves, there was only a noticeable development in the age of the patients. The people suffering from type 2 diabetes in North Africa, Oceania and the Middle East are significantly older than in other areas of the world.
“At the superregion level, the highest age-standardized rates were observed in North Africa and the Middle East 9.3% and at the regional level in Oceania 12.3%. At the national level, Qatar had the highest age-specific prevalence of diabetes in the world at 76.1% in individuals aged 75-79 years.”
Due to the current developments, the researchers assume that the number of patients will increase significantly more in the coming years than in the past. They expect that by 2050 around 1.3 billion people will have type 2 diabetes.
Terrifying and challenging
The study’s authors also emphasize that these numbers pose a challenge to healthcare systems: “The international community has become increasingly aware that diabetes is a monumental global health threat that poses increasing challenges to public health and public health systems worldwide.”
In view of this, the World Health Organization (WHO) is now working on a long-term solution, as the team describes:
“The WHO identified diabetes as one of three target diseases in its WHO global action plan to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases, and the WHO Global Diabetes Compact was established in 2021 to improve access to healthcare for people living with diabetes and work closely with them.”
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