The sources of data tend to miss a good deal of the disease because it is undiagnosed at a rate as high as 50%. One study finds that the overall European prevalence of the disease is about 7.8%, with over 48 million adults aged 20-79 years in Europe living with diabetes in 2003. Rates are usually higher in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe ("Diabetes in Europe" paras. 1-5). The increase in diabetes in different parts of the world has been attributed to the spread of Western eating habits, and among the trappings of the Western lifestyle that have affected rates are fast food, television, video games and driving everywhere. In Europe, these changes have taken a toll so that five percent of the population has diabetes, a rate about the same as Africa, though the incidence of undiagnosed diabetes is through to be higher in Africa than in Europe because of different attitudes toward health care. Rates have been climbing I large African cities, as in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, where the rate has climbed from one percent to 6% in ten years. Developing countries show the disease as an epidemic affecting people between the ages of 45 and 64, some of the most productive years of their lives. An issue in the spread of diabetes is the failure of doctors to diagnose the issue. Doctors are diagnosing diabetes in Africa at high rates, showing an increase at a rate of 11% per annum so that there is talk of an epidemic of diabetes. Among the reasons given for this are the high GI, high fat diet the general public is consuming, and also an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, with higher stress and more smoking ("Diagnosis of Diabetes" para. 1). Still, it is estimated that at least 50% of cases of the disease are undiagnosed either because the...
The Republic of Ireland has been considered a region of low type 1 diabetes incidence compared with the British Isles and the rest of Europe. The crude incidence rate of type 1 diabetes stands at 16.6 per 100,000 per year, and the directly standardized incidence rate stands at 16.3 per 100,000 per year. The Republic has a high incidence of type 1 diabetes, and so services should be planned and resources allocated accordingly. There also appear to be differing rates between Northern and Southern Ireland (Roche, Gill, Hoey, and Menon para. 1).
Diabetes in Australia The Australian government and the relevant Health agencies have for many years strived to put the diabetes menace under close observation and management. There have been massive researches and huge sums directed towards good management and possible elimination of diabetes at the national levels. This commitment is exhibited by the specialized funds and efforts like the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund (JDRF) that has been committed to striving to
Diabetes: The future of a chronic disease The number of cases of type II diabetes has seen a dramatic increase in recent years, both in the United States and worldwide. The primary reasons for this increase are generally attributed to increased consumption of high-sugar, high-starch, and highly caloric food and a lack of exercise. The International Diabetes Foundation estimates that "one in 10 of the world's population will have diabetes by
Researchers used this information, and designed it in such a way that it fit in with the lifestyle that this population was accustomed to (Acton, Shields, Rith-Najarian, Tolbert, Kelly, Moore, Valdez, Skipper, & Gohdes, 2001). This allowed the researchers not only to study the population more closely, but also to achieve a major degree of success that might not have been possible in a standard intervention program. The study found
Some patients feel helpless, hopeless, depressed, isolated from others, belittled, and do not know how to seek appropriate help from others (Rutter 2004). Socially supportive arrangements were addressed as the attributes of socially legitimate roles which provide for the meeting dependency needs without loss of esteem. Socially supportive environments were presented as pattern interpersonal relationships mediated through shared values and sentiments as well as facilitate the performance of social
In Vallejo, however, because of the Hispanic ethnic background of much of the population, there is a profound, healthy, and deeply culturally ingrained appreciation for the sport of baseball. Thus, to foster this interest, expanding the Little League and offering financial support to existing community organizations is one of the physical activity components of the action plan designed for the area ("Children and Weight: Taking Action in the Vallejo Community,"
Diabetes and Obesity: What Are the Choices? Diabetes is becoming an increasingly serious health problem across the United States, and indeed across the world. The majority of cases of diabetes, both in terms of new diagnoses and of current cases, are those of Type II diabetes, which is a condition generally brought on by overweight or obesity and lack of exercise, that prevents an individual's body from being able to metabolize
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