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Half a billion people suffer from diabetes. Many do not know – Wel.nl

Worldwide, nearly half a billion people suffer from diabetes. More than half of them are unaware that they have the disease, it shows new research that in The Lancet popped up.

The researchers studied data from 680,000 people between the ages of 25 and 64 from 55 countries. 37,000 of them were diabetic. More than half of this group was unaware that they were ill. Nine in ten diabetes patients had type 2, which is caused by an unhealthy lifestyle and especially overweight.

In the past, diabetes was mainly a problem in the Western world, but due to changing eating patterns, the disease is also increasingly emerging in Asia and Africa. “The number of patients with diabetes is exploding everywhere. 80 percent of all patients live in low or middle income countries,” said David Flood, a researcher at the University of Michigan.

There are plenty in the Netherlands 1.2 million people with diabetes. 250,000 of them are unaware that they have the disease. Untreated diabetes triples the risk of a heart attack and increases the risk of strokes, kidney failure and damage to the nervous system. Symptoms of diabetes include passing a lot of urine, feeling very thirsty, poor vision and fatigue.

Bron (nen): Newsweek – – .

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