Looking at the prevalence and incidence rate of diabetes worldwide, one will notice that it has been a major health problem. This explains why diabetes ranks among the first four killer diseases in the world today.

Diabetes mellitus was reported to be the fifth places in the United States as a cause of death from diseases. The American Diabetes Association estimates that ten million people may have diabetes mellitus, with one-third undiagnosed because the individual has none of the common symptoms.

A special study by Tokustiata in Pennsylvania reports that in twelfth month period, 2640 disease were officially reported as diseases caused by Diabetes Mellitus ad those diseases were recorded as a contributing cause in an additional 7531 deaths, while about 2000 residents had actually been diagnosed as having diabetes mellitus. Another report by Pyke indicated that diabetes mellitus affect at least one person in 75 in the population of Great Britain and the United State more or less severely.

A flunky of papers has recently drawn attention to the growing problem of diabetes in the Middle East. These have appeared in the prestigious British Diabetes Journal of Diabetic Medicine. ‘It is gratifying for us at Insulin Dependent Diabetes (IDD) to see the problems of diabetes in our circulation areas receiving attention in even more learned volume than our own’ Oman in 1995 reported on a World Health Organization; WHO assisted national Diabetes epidemiology survey carried out in 1991.

Using a large and well constructed glucose tolerance test (GTT) base method, the workers found a ten percent overall disease Diabetes rates, rising to over thirty percent in the elderly. Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) was found in thirteen percent females and eight percent of males. An Egyptian study published sometime ago, revealed a Diabetes prevalence of 9.3 percent in Cairo and its surrounding areas.

SInce it has become certain that diabetes is very much around, we will do ourselves the greatest good by taking necessary steps to control, manage and treat this killer disease.

To put the problem of diabetes to a reasonable level, if not cured entirely, below are some helpful tips:

Dietary management. Dietary measures are required in the treatment of all diabetic patients in order to achieve the overall therapeutic goal.

Endeavor to exercise yourself as much as possible.

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