Diabetes

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARYiii

Introduction1

Discussion2

Age & Sex3

Race5

Poverty & Social Inequality6

Lifestyle & Risk Factors7

Health behavior8

Global Increased Prevalence of Type -2 Diabetes9

Strategies for Measuring Standards of Care and Care Improvement10

Conclusion11

Practical Recommendations12

References13

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report is based on identifying the prevalence of diabetes of type2. This research paper has discussed the problem and the factors of prevalence of diabetes type 2; it has also focused on the factors which have been influencing on the prevalence of this chronic diseases. The diabetes is epidemic that is spreading around the world which clearly demonstrates. The impressive increased numbers obviously cannot be placed on account of genetic factors. Most likely, this increase is due to changes in lifestyles in urban areas. The Western lifestyle is characterized by a more elaborate diet, physical inactivity and stress. It gives a clue on how to apply to reduce the burden of this condition. And again, this has nothing to do with genetics. However, without a genetic predisposition, these changes to a modern lifestyle could not have found field fertile on which to exercise their dangerous influence. Diabetes mellitus type 2 is characterized by a long asymptomatic preclinical stage at which the disease is often not detected.

Diabetes

Introduction

At present, Ii most countries, there is a tendency to steady increase in the incidence and prevalence of diabetes is type 2 (DM 2), which is a stepwise evolving pathological process, which is based on a violation of tissue sensitivity to insulin (IR) and reduced insulin secretion ß-cells of the islets of the pancreas. The formation of clinically overt diabetes type 2 is preceded by the stage of pre-diabetes, characterized by impaired glucose tolerance, detectable during the oral glucose tolerance test, or a diagnosed impaired fasting glucose (IFG). According to established notions, diabetes mellitus type 2 is so far the absolute prerogative of adults. However, overlooked the fact that the formation of diabetes mellitus type 2 lasts for many years and is under a framework established in childhood. In addition, attention is drawn to the fact of a significant increase in percentage of patients with type 2 diabetes among patients under 18 years of age. Thus, according to the ADA, the United States today share of diabetes mellitus type 2 is 40-45% of all diabetes cases in children. Rising incidence of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents is one of the reasons for increasing the proportion of this type of diabetes in adults. According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), diabetes mellitus type 2 in children is a serious disease with the formation of complications in the first 10 years. In this regard, early detection and adequate correction of conduct to prevent the development of chronic complications is an urgent issue of paediatric endocrinology with the priority of research in this area (Tuomilehto, 2004).

Discussion

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common diseases; it has its principal place not only in the structure of endocrine diseases, and diseases of infectious nature (third after cardiovascular and cancer pathology). The earliest among all disease disability, a high mortality ...