Diabetes Facts

• Diabetes currently influences 246 million people worldwide and is expected to influence 380 million by 2025.
• In 2007, India (40.9 million), China (39.8 million), the United States (19.2 million), Russia (9.6 million) and Germany (7.4 million) are the top five countries having largest numbers of diabetic people.
• By 2025, developing countries have maximum diabetes prevalence.
• Every year a further 7 million people (two people in every 10 seconds) become diabetic and 3.8 million deaths (one in every 10 seconds) are only because of diabetes (fourth leading cause of global death by disease).
• Merely 50% (in some countries up to 80%) of all diabetic people are ignorant of their condition.
• Healthy diet and increasing physical activity can prevent or push back about 80% cases of type 2 diabetes (NIDDM).
• Diabetes is the one of the leading causes of kidney/renal failure (10-20% of diabetic death) in developed countries and is responsible for massive dialysis expenses.
• Diabetic retinopathy is the foremost cause of vision loss in adults of working age (20 to 65 years) in developed countries.
• It is anticipated that more than 2.5 million people worldwide are suffered by diabetic retinopathy.
• Approximately, people with type 2 diabetes will die 5-10 years earlier than people without diabetes, generally due to cardiovascular disease.
• Cardiovascular disease is the most important cause of diabetes fatalities and disability (accounting for some 50%).
• Type 2 diabetics are over twice as likely to have a heart attack or stroke as compared to non-diabetics.