Obesity and Diabetes Epidemic: World Diabetes Day- 2018 by Gundu H R Rao in Archives of Diabetes & Obesity in Lupine Publishers
Just the other day, I wrote an Editorial for another journal on World Diabetes Day. Before that, it was the World Thrombosis
Day. Think of just metabolic diseases, you have, - World Hypertension Day (May 17), World Obesity Day (Oct 11), World Heart Day
(Sept 29), World Thrombosis Day (Oct 13), World Diabetes Day (Nov 14).
The list keeps growing every year. Whenever I am asked to
participate, in these World Observation Days or asked to write about
these important annual days, I ask myself, what have we done
to arrest, reduce or prevent these chronic metabolic diseases? What can
be done about the raising epidemics of chronic diseases?
These are hard questions to ask? Much harder, to answer.
All that we can do is, just like we do for New Year’s Day, take a
pledge to do something that will make a difference. Metabolicdiseases, such as hypertension, excess weight, obesity, type-2 diabetes, and vascular diseases, have reached epidemic proportions
worldwide. In the last three decades globally, obesity has increased
two-fold and diabetes, four-fold. No country has stopped,
reversed or prevented the trends, in the increase of these chronic
metabolic diseases. We and others are of the opinion, that if the
metabolic risks are recognized earlier, then just lifestyle
modifications may be enough to prevent or postpone the development of
diabetes and associated chronic clinical complications.
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