Today, November 14, World Diabetes Day is celebrated, a commemoration created by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1991 as a means to increase global awareness of this disease. This year, World Diabetes Day is celebrated with the motto "Eye with Diabetes".
We often talk on the blog about diabetes because it affects pregnant women with gestational diabetes and children, and today we take advantage of this date to offer the latest figures and information on the global and regional prevalence of diabetes and other related data.
The motto for 2016 "Eye with diabetes" He wants to emphasize that to prevent harmful and expensive complications it is necessary to diagnose people as soon as possible. "Invisible" symptoms of type 2 diabetes can eventually cause cardiovascular problems, blindness, kidney failure and lower limb amputation.
According to the Diabetes Foundation, more than a third of people currently living with type 1 and 2 diabetes will develop some type of eye damage during their lives.
Facts about diabetes
More than 542,000 children lived with type 1 diabetes in 2015.
More than 20.9 million births were affected by diabetes during pregnancy in 2015 (one in seven births).
Gestational diabetes affects one in ten pregnant women.
Gestational diabetes can bring complications such as high blood pressure or urinary infections, together with possible complications in the fetus, such as macrosomia.
Approximately 415 million adults have diabetes; by 2040 the figure will increase to 642 million.
The proportion of people with type 2 diabetes increases in most countries.
75% of adults with diabetes live in low-income countries.
The largest number of people with diabetes are between 40 and 59 years old.
One in two (46%) of people with diabetes are undiagnosed.
Diabetes caused 5 million deaths in 2015; Every six seconds a person dies from diabetes.
Diabetes caused at least USD 673 billion in healthcare expenses in 2015 (12% of total adult spending).
Remember that complications can be prevented or delayed by keeping blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels as close to normal as possible. But for this it is necessary to detect diabetes in the early stages, allowing timely treatment and in pregnancies do not miss periodic checks.
