Mass child diabetes threatens Eastern Europe
Mass child diabetes threatens Eastern Europe
The prevalence of type-1 diabetes in children aged up to five years in Europe, according to doctors, by 2020 will double compared with 2005. And the level of morbidity in the age of 15 years of age by 70 percent, notes a new study.
This trend is based on cases identified between 1989-2003 years, most acutely manifested in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe.
In an article published online by the British journal Lancet, says: increased so sharply that it can not be explained solely by genetic predisposition.
First of all, the perpetrators of early diabetes on the first type are the “habits, produced due to modern lifestyles, say scientists.
Currently, diabetes affects 246 million people worldwide and is expected that by 2025 there will be about 380 million people, said the International Diabetes Federation.
Diabetes type-1 usually occurs in childhood and early adolescence.
The immune system destroys the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, which converts glucose into other forms of energy, which dramatically increases the blood sugar level and under certain conditions dangerous to life.
Experts say that these violations are caused by a combination of genetic vulnerability and environmental factors, including weight gain, not carried over into early childhood infectious diseases and the emergence into the light by Caesarean section.
Diabetes type 2 affects far more people than the first type, it occurs when a shortage of insulin or when cells become resistant to insulin produced by the body.
This type of diabetes is closely linked to chronic obesity, which has become endemic in industrialized countries as a result of sedentary lifestyles and go to the sweet and fatty foods.
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