Global Courant
According to a new global study, the number of people with diabetes worldwide could double in the next 30 years.
Cases are expected to rise from 529 million to 1.3 billion by 2050, largely because there is currently no effective mitigation strategy to tackle or mitigate the disease, the study found. study published Thursday in The Lancet and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
While the number of cases is expected to increase in each country, growth will be uneven.
Researchers stated that rates in North Africa and the Middle East are expected to rise to 16.8 percent from the current 9.3 percent and 11.3 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2050. Compared to 9, 5 percent worldwide from the current 6.1 percent.
The researchers say this could be due to several factors, including underfunded and ill-prepared healthcare systems, and socioeconomic challenges such as poor nutrition, poverty and physical inactivity.
The growing number of people with diabetes is due in part to rising obesity rates, but also demographic shifts, as the disease is most common in older adults, the study showed.
The study looked at 204 countries and territories across 25 age groups, men and women separately and combined, and found that most cases worldwide are type 2 diabetes, the form of the disease linked to obesity.
Diabetes, both type 1 and type 2, represents major health risks and is one of the top 10 leading causes of death and disability worldwide.
The study found that deaths from the disease in people under the age of 15 were due to type 1 diabetes. Compared with 70 percent or more of the deaths of people over the age of 25 were due to type 2 diabetes.
This data does not include the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While there is no consistent strategy or policy to address diabetes globally, the study looked at preventive strategies implemented in China, Finland and the US and concluded that early diagnosis, patient education and regular visits to health care providers are “the could prevent or at least delay disease”. onset of type 2 diabetes.”
The researchers say they hope there will be more strategies and policies aimed at reducing the disease, obesity and raising awareness of inequalities around appropriate treatment worldwide.
