So, in 2019, 410.5 thousand Russians were diagnosed with diabetes for the first time. In 2010, such patients were identified 323.9 thousand.
The incidence rate (the number of newly diagnosed cases per 100 thousand population) increased by 22.5%: in 2010 it amounted to 228.3 new cases per 100 thousand population, in 2019 this figure increased to 279.7.
Among the regions with the highest incidence rate in 2019 were the Krasnodar Territory (475.2 cases per 100 thousand population), as well as Leningrad (435.4), Rostov (428.3), Kirov (413.3) and Orenburg ( 400.4) area.
The smallest number of newly diagnosed cases per 100 thousand was noted in Chechnya (64.1), Dagestan (100.1), Primorsky Territory (112.2), Ingushetia (115.4) and Trans-Baikal Territory (136.6).
According to Ilya Barsukov, senior researcher at the Department of Therapeutic Endocrinology of MONIKI, a combination of several factors led to the increase in the incidence. In particular, improving the quality of diagnosis of this disease.
“Of course, people are undergoing medical examination, and some individual checks - the detection of diabetes has become better over the past ten years, unambiguously,” the specialist noted.
He also added that the increase in the number of patients with diabetes is associated with an increase in the age population.
“This is especially true for warm regions, because now people of the middle and older age categories are actively moving there from the more northern ones, as before. And, accordingly, the prevalence of diabetes among them is much higher than the average population, ”the doctor explained.
Previously, the regions of Russia with the highest prevalence of obesity were named.