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Number of diabetes patients soars in Ontario
Contributed by Theresa Maher Friday, 02 March 2007
A new report has revealed that the number of people suffering from diabetes in the Ontario has surpassed the percentage that the World Health Organization had predicted by 2030
Most of the people were suffering from Type-2 diabetes, which is caused by obesity, poor diet and a lack of exercise Developed countries all over the world are facing this problem of epidemic as their populations have a rich diet and exercise less According to Lorraine Lipscombe of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, over 88 percent of the population above 20 years of age was suffering from diabetes in 2005 In 1995 it was around 52 percent The total rise in the population suffering from diabetes in the 10 years from 1195 is a whooping 69 percent, which is 9 percent higher than the 60 percent rise globally as predicted by WHO The timeframe set by the worldrsquo;s leading health agency is by 2030 In a report published in the Lancet medical journal, the doctors from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences said, In view of this linear growth in prevalence, more than 10
percent of the adult population of Ontario will be diagnosed with diabetes before 2010 If similar trends are occurring throughout developed countries, then the size of the emerging diabetes epidemic is far greater than anticipated In an accompanying commentary, The Lancet said that these new estimates had the potential to upset World Health Organization calculation WHO has predicted a 39 percent rise in the worldwide prevalence of diabetes between 2000 and 2030, but the study indicates that this figure might be a gross underestimation, it added Type-2 diabetes is mainly concerned with lifestyle choices as opposed to Type-1, which is also called juvenile diabetes In the former, the body does not utilize insulin properly leading to rise in blood sugar levels Type-2 diabetes has the potential to cause complications like heart disease and blindness
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