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Diabetes Worldwide

Diabetes.

A shortened version of the illness Diabetes Mellitus. A condition where there is an excess of glucose in the blood, due primarily either to the body being unable to produce enough insulin to manage this glucose or the inability of the body to utilise this insulin.

This illness is so common. The World Health Organisation estimates that currently there are about 246 million people worldwide suffering from diabetes. Figures are estimated to reach 380 million by the year 2025. The costs in treating this as yet incurable disease comes to billions of dollars yearly. The costs of managing the complications of the illness comes to even more billions of dollars. And yet the word diabetes fails to strike fear in a lot of people. Who has not heard of a friend or relative with diabetes? This problem is so commonplace these days that one lives with it, not bothering too much until the complications of diabetes hits one in the face.

Common problems to look forward to in poorly-managed diabetes:
Eyes: cataract, glaucoma, retinal tears, retinal bleeds, blindness
Kidneys: kidney failure
Heart: heart attacks
Brain: strokes
Skin: Increased skin infection, poor healing wounds
Limbs: poor blood supply leading to pain, painless ulceration due to nerve destruction, gangrene leading to loss of limbs by amputation

These are only a few of the more common complications.

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