23% Of Kuwait Population Affected By Type 2 DiabetesDocs Urge Action On Epidemic Of Diabetes, Cardio

[Sally]

That seems like an awfully high percentage of the population. However, we see this happening in many countries, ahtough I don't think as bad as this.

23% Of Kuwait Population Affected By Type 2 DiabetesDocs Urge Action On Epidemic Of Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease


KUWAIT CITY, Jan 25: Local doctor Professor Mohammad Zubaid, professor of Medicine at Kuwait University and President of Kuwait Cardiac Society, is urging action on the rising ‘epidemic’ of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the country, as incidence of both continue to rise significantly. Prevalence of hypertension is set to double by 2025, according to the World Health Organisation, and Type 2 diabetes affects up to 23% of Kuwait’s population, according to the International Diabetes Federation. As many as half of all diabetes sufferers are still undiagnosed, with the illness commonly caused by obesity — another major health problem in Kuwait.

Around 23% of Kuwaitis are classed as overweight or obese, according to the WHO. Although traditionally thought of as a disease affecting only blood sugar metabolism, diabetes is associated with much higher rates of heart disease and strokes — more than smoking and high cholesterol put together. Kuwait is also already seeing a rise in cases of hypertension, especially among a growing number of younger people (under 35), as a result of unhealthy lifestyles including poor diet and lack of exercise.

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[HenryBHough]

There's a simple liberal solution:

Mandate in-the-womb DNA testing of every fetus.

Kill the ones you don't find to be perfect.

or of the wrong gender.

or of the wrong eye-colour.

or of the ones you just want (DNA testing waived in such cases as unnecessary expense).

 

[Sunni Man]

Yikes!! ......

 

[Pogo]

There's a simple liberal solution:

Mandate in-the-womb DNA testing of every fetus.

Kill the ones you don't find to be perfect.

or of the wrong gender.

or of the wrong eye-colour.

or of the ones you just want (DNA testing waived in such cases as unnecessary expense).

Henry's solution is apparently to eat more red herring.

 

[Coyote]

That seems like an awfully high percentage of the population. However, we see this happening in many countries, ahtough I don't think as bad as this.

23% Of Kuwait Population Affected By Type 2 DiabetesDocs Urge Action On Epidemic Of Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease


KUWAIT CITY, Jan 25: Local doctor Professor Mohammad Zubaid, professor of Medicine at Kuwait University and President of Kuwait Cardiac Society, is urging action on the rising ‘epidemic’ of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the country, as incidence of both continue to rise significantly. Prevalence of hypertension is set to double by 2025, according to the World Health Organisation, and Type 2 diabetes affects up to 23% of Kuwait’s population, according to the International Diabetes Federation. As many as half of all diabetes sufferers are still undiagnosed, with the illness commonly caused by obesity — another major health problem in Kuwait.

Around 23% of Kuwaitis are classed as overweight or obese, according to the WHO. Although traditionally thought of as a disease affecting only blood sugar metabolism, diabetes is associated with much higher rates of heart disease and strokes — more than smoking and high cholesterol put together. Kuwait is also already seeing a rise in cases of hypertension, especially among a growing number of younger people (under 35), as a result of unhealthy lifestyles including poor diet and lack of exercise.

Continue reading at:

Arab Times Kuwait English Daily 404Error



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I think it's really bad in countries that have been traditionally poor and have now attained affluence and the diet that comes with it. There's a genetic aspect to it as well in that the genes that allow people to survive in a sparse enviornment are detrimental in affluence. India is another country that suffers from it as well as certain native American populations. We're seeing obesity epidemics everywhere.

 

[waltky]

Type-2 diabetes growing problem in Africa...

Diabetes a Growing Health Menace in Africa
September 03, 2015 | In sub-Saharan Africa, problems with communicable diseases, like HIV, malaria and ebola are common. But adult-onset diabetes is being seen more often in the region, in many of the world’s poorest countries, where doctors and medical facilities are not prepared to deal with the serious health problem.

Diabetes now affects 21 million African men and women, a number that authors of an article in the journal "The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology" say is expected to climb to 35 million in the next 20 years. They estimate the prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes is 62 percent in middle-aged adults, with those younger than age 60 making up three-quarters of deaths related to the condition.

The problem, says Harvard University global health expert Rifat Atun, is not so much tied to economic improvements, as in other westernizing countries, but to the social and lifestyle transitions now taking place in Africa, "such as no exercise, changing jobs, and migration into urban areas without adequate green space and options for exercise - are all [meeting] to trigger this change.” Atun also says there’s a move away from agrarian occupations, meaning less physical activity for many Africans.

A syringe filled with insulin.

African Health Infrastructure Not Ready

Atun, the article's co-author, notes the medical infrastructure and technologies in sub-Saharan Africa are heavily geared toward responding to communicable diseases, such as HIV, TB and malaria, not non-infectious diseases such as diabetes. The challenge, he says, is to make hospitals, clinics and health personnel more responsive to the treatment of diabetes, a chronic illness that requires intensive lifelong monitoring and treatment.

“We’re not saying there should be less funding for communicable diseases," he stressed. "But what we can do is to raise awareness to address this issue now as opposed to wait for 30 years, or 10 years even, to have a major crisis on our hands.” Atun says an international commission of health policy experts, economists and governmental representatives will be formed to consider ways to strengthen health systems – to prepare for the rising epidemic of diabetes in Africa.

Diabetes a Growing Health Menace in Africa

 

[HenryBHough]

When diabetes could not be treated the problem was self-limiting.

If you were diabetic you died before you could reproduce.

So NHS is just nodding in the direction of getting back to basics.

 

[Coyote]

When diabetes could not be treated the problem was self-limiting.

If you were diabetic you died before you could reproduce.

So NHS is just nodding in the direction of getting back to basics.

Not with Type 2 which typically hits later in adulthood - after reproduction...