(Warning Signs)

1. Obesity and overweight

2. Lack of exercise

3. Previously identified glucose intolerance

4. Unhealthy diet

5. Increasing age

6. High blood pressure and high cholesterol

7. A family history of diabetes

8. History of gestational diabetes (A history of gestational diabetes)

Ethnicity - higher diabetes have been reported in Asian, Hispanic, Indigenous peoples (United States, Canada, Australia) and African-Americans.

According to the latest data released by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), diabetes now affects 285 million people around the world. Cost the least to reach U.S. $ 376 billion in 2010, or 11.6% of total health spending of the world. The next 344 million at risk of diabetes (pre-diabetes). If nothing is done to reverse the epidemic, the IDF predicts that by 2030, 435 million people will live with diabetes. Cost is projected to exceed U.S. $ 490 billion.

1.      Every 10 seconds someone dies of causes related to diabetes.

2.      Every 10 seconds two people develop diabetes.

3.      Every 30 seconds diabetes limb loss

4.      Each year, 7 million people develop diabetes

5.      Each year 4 million deaths caused by diabetes

6.      Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of global death by disease.

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