Many people still assume diabetes is a disease or illness of parents who simply result from hereditary factors. Yet, each person can have diabetes, both young and old, including you. However, you need to understand and you are not alone.
According to WHO data, Indonesia was ranked the 4th largest in the number of people with Diabetes Mellitus in the world. In 2000 the last year alone, there are about 5.6 million Indonesia people with diabetes.
However, in 2006 estimated the number of diabetics in Indonesia rose sharply to 14 million people, where only 50 percent who knew the virus and among them only about 30 percent of which came regular treatment.
Unfortunately, that many people with diabetes who did not realize he was suffering from a disease that is more often referred to as diabetes or diabetes. This may be due to lack of information about diabetes in the community, especially the symptoms.
The majority of diabetes cases are type 2 diabetes is caused by hereditary factors. But heredity alone is not enough to cause a person affected by diabetes because the risk is only 5%. It turned out that type 2 diabetes is more common in people who are obese are overweight due alias lifestyle she led.
Keep in mind this year of about 650,000 Indonesian children suffering from diabetes 2. Unhealthy lifestyles and unbalanced trigger an increasing number of diabetes mellitus in Indonesia.
Recorded at least 13 million people of Indonesia have diabetes mellitus (DM). Five percent of them or about 650,000 people were children, who generally suffer from type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 2 is caused by a lifestyle that is not healthy to cause insulin resistance.
Currently, diabetes 2 is a type of diabetes is most commonly found. If the first type 2 diabetes associated with old age, it can attack since the age of children, adolescents, and adults age. Children today are a lot of unhealthy food and lack of move-prone diabetes 2 suffer.
Parents should watch their eating habits and physical activity their children at home. In addition, parents also need to watch the development of child weight. Children who suffer from DM usually indicated often faster hungry and thirsty, urinate a lot, and her weight was never rises. If you see these symptoms have to be careful. Try to encourage children to check their blood sugar levels. Blood sugar levels are normal in children with normal glucose levels for adults, which ranges from 100-140 mg / dl.
Increasing the number of people with DM is high enough. Nationally, the average sufferer rose 5.7 percent. However, in some big cities like Jakarta, increasing the number of sufferers could reach 12 percent per year. This condition is of concern because the number of deaths due to diabetes is high. Throughout the world, an average of six people die every minute from complications of diabetes.
In fact, there are the possibilities of Diabetes Mellitus patients in Indonesia more than that recorded, Diabetes Mellitus sufferers prone to osteoporosis. High sugar levels in the blood stimulate hormones that reduce the level of bone density. Left untreated, people with Diabetes Mellitus will eventually osteoporosis and fractures easily.
