Diabete Mellito
Diabetes upto today?
Diabetes is a common disease related to endocrine metabolism. As the report, more than 371 million people have diabetes and the number of people with diabetes is increasing in every country. Nearly 46% of people diabetes are undiagnosed, 4.8 million people died due to diabetes.
At the present there is no method which can cure diabetes totally. The main therapy is to prevent or alleviate the occurrence of complications through frequent monitoring and adjustment of the glucose level. Poorly management diabetes leads to serious complications and early death.
Invasive and painful is the way today routing measurement of glucose levels, as the measurement requires blood be drawn by the pricking of ginger tips. A reliable, inexpensive, non-invasive device could greatly increase blood glucose level monitoring, and potentially help diabetics willing, routing manage their disease.
KEY MESSAGES
- 387 million people have diabetes; by 2035 this will rise to 592 million
- The number of people with type 2 diabetes is increasing in every country
- 77% of people with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries
- The greatest number of people with diabetes are between 40 and 59 years of age
- The greatest number of people with diabetes are between 40 and 59 years of age
- Diabetes caused 4.9 million deaths in 2014; Every seven seconds a person dies from diabetes
- Diabetes caused at least USD 612 billion dollars in health expenditure in 2014, 11% of total spending on adults
- More than 79,000 children developed type 1 diabetes in 2013
- More than 21 million live births were affected by diabetes during pregnancy in 2013
(for further reading about diabetes data, please refer to http://www.idf.org/worlddiabetesday/toolkit/gp/facts-figures)