Alarming: 1 in 5 teenagers in the US suffer from diabetes
The numbers are only increasing every year, and this time it is not the older diabetes patients who are concerned about the health authorities. US data reveals the numbers
Alarming: 1 in 5 teenagers in the US suffer from diabetes
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Nearly a quarter of the youngest and a fifth of adolescents in the United States suffer from diabetes, according to a study published last Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. Pre-diabetes is a condition where blood sugar levels do not meet the definition of diabetes, but are above the normal range. People who are pre-diabetic are at a very high risk of becoming diabetic later in life - up to 10 percent will begin within a year, and up to 74 percent will begin later in life. In addition, pre-diabetes is a risk factor for cardiovascular complications.
The CDC, the American Center for Disease Control and Prevention, estimates that 18 percent of adolescents ages 12 to 18, and 24 percent among young people 19 to 34 suffer from pre-diabetes. Experts say these numbers have risen in the last decade, putting young people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other health conditions. .
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To the full article"Until recently, young children and teens rarely had type 2 diabetes, which is why it was formerly called adult diabetes," the CDC explained. Some are even younger than 10 years old.
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The main treatment for this diabetes is insulin. Incorporating a healthy lifestyle and monitoring proper sugar levels under insulin therapy helps prevent diabetes complications. Type 1 diabetes can develop in people with a family background of the disease, but also in those without a family background but with an inherited tendency. In type 2 diabetes, which develops over years and is associated with obesity, the body responds less to insulin over time.
9 out of 10 people do not know their condition
According to an analysis of nearly 5,800 researchers included in a state health survey from 2005 to 2016, the authors found that "the prevalence of pre-diabetes in men was almost twice that of women." 22.5 percent compared to 13.4 percent among youth and 29.1 percent compared to 18.8 percent among young adults.
Pre-diabetes status is more prevalent in obese young people, which is also closely related to type 2 diabetes in adults. More than a quarter of obese adolescents and over a third of obese young adults were found to be pre-diabetic - compared to less than 17 percent of people with normal weight in both age groups. The numbers are even greater when it comes to adults: About a third of adults - or 84 million Americans - suffer from pre-diabetes, according to the CDC. Nine out of ten do not know their condition at all.
According to data released this year on the occasion of International Diabetes Awareness Day, nearly 550,000 people have diabetes in Israel, and about 550,000 are in the pre-disease stage. The HMO figures show that nearly 10 percent of the adult population in Israel lives with diabetes.