Hundreds of millions of people globally have become diabetic over the past 30 years, leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to call for “urgent action” to deal with the health crisis.
The number of adults living with diabetes worldwide has more than quadrupled since 1990, the WHO said in a Nov. 13 statement citing the results of a recent study it supported. An estimated 828 million adults were living with the condition worldwide in 2022, an increase of 630 million from 1990.
The lowest prevalence of diabetes was in “Western Europe and East Africa for both sexes, and in Japan and Canada for women.” The highest prevalence was in Polynesia and Micronesia, certain nations in the Caribbean, North Africa, and the Middle East, as well as Pakistan and Malaysia.
In total, 14 percent of the world’s adults had diabetes in 2022, double the seven percent 30 years back.
“We have seen an alarming rise in diabetes over the past three decades, which reflects the increase in obesity, compounded by the impacts of the marketing of unhealthy food, a lack of physical activity, and economic hardship,” said WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
“To bring the global diabetes epidemic under control, countries must urgently take action. This starts with enacting policies that support healthy diets and physical activity, and, most importantly, health systems that provide prevention, early detection, and treatment.”
Nearly 450 million adults aged 30 and above with diabetes remained untreated in 2022. This represented 59 percent of all adults who have the condition, a 3.5-fold jump. Ninety percent of untreated adults were living in low- and middle-income countries.
Over the past 30 years people have become far less active in their daily lives. Riding grass cutters, robotic vacuum cleaners, computers and computerized office equipment, motorized bicycles, ect, etc, the list goes on and on. Real exercise is the key to preventing and controlling diabetes. Being complacent sitting in your easy chair scrolling f**kbook for hours on end is a major factor contributing to the disease. Get out DelMarVa and do some manual labor for a change
Keep the government off my back. If I want to eat fast food and drink beer it’s my body my choice.