China has highest ratio of diabetes patients
March 31, 2014 Category Health, Weekly
Lifestyle changes have led to growing rates of diabetes among Chinese. In the early 1980s, the prevalence of diabetes among adults in China was 0.67%. In 2008, it increased to 9.7%, said diabetes specialist Xu Zhangrong, who is also Director of the Diabetes Treatment Center of the 306th Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). In 2010, under new diagnostic criteria, the prevalence hit 11.6%, the highest in the world. China now has one-third of the world’s diabetic population, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2013. The prevalence of pre-diabetes among Chinese adults was estimated to be 50.1% in 2010. Up to 113.9 million Chinese adults have diabetes and 493.4 million have pre-diabetes. Only 25.8% of diabetics are treated in China, and only 39.7% of those treated have adequate glycemic control, according to the study published on JAMA. With people’s livelihoods improving quickly in rural areas, unhealthy diets, unsafe food, less exercise and poor prevention awareness have led to rising rates of obesity and higher blood lipid levels, all of which can be triggers for diabetes. “Diabetes has become a major challenge for China’s public health,” Xu Zhangrong said.
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