According to WHO more than 180 million people worldwide have diabetes, and by 2030 this number is likely to more than double. In 2005 about 1.1 million people dies from diabetes, and almost 80% of deaths caused by diabetes occur in low and middle-income countries.
Type 2 diabetes comes mostly by obesity and little physical activity. Over time obesity leads to changed metabolism and insulin resistance. That means that the insulin can’t do its job, which is to get the sugar to the tissue. Insulin is a hormone that is made by cells called beta cells. When this happens the blood sugar gets dangerously high. Earlier it was unusual for people under 40 year to get diabetes, but now younger and younger people get the disease, even children at the age of 10. Diabetes is an annoying disease, but it is possible to turn the progress if you get a new lifestyle before the disease is fully developed. The four common symptoms are:
- being thirsty a lot of the time
- passing large amounts of urine
- tiredness
- weight loss
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From these statistics we can see that there is actually more people in India that have type 2 diabetes, than in UK. That it because people in India have genes that make the risk of getting diabetes bigger. People have been sceptical to this, but is has been proved by several experiments.
