November 14 is the United Nations Diabetes Day. According to statistics, the prevalence of diabetes in adults in my country is 12.8%, and the number of patients is about 130 million.
How to prevent diabetes?
Who should pay more attention to?
Look at the expert interpretation.
Diabetes is closely related to some diseases and poor lifestyles.
Studies have found that age ≥40 years old, hypertension, dyslipidemia, overweight and obesity, and family history of diabetes are all high-risk factors for diabetes.
Mu Yiming, director of the Endocrinology Department of the First Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital: In families with this type of diabetes with a clear genetic history, the risk of diabetes in the offspring will increase by two to three times.
"Pre-diabetes" high-risk groups should be vigilant
Some people have high blood sugar but do not meet the diagnostic criteria for diabetes. This condition is called "pre-diabetes", and these people are also high-risk groups of diabetes.
A statistics show that the incidence of pre-diabetes in my country is about 15.5%. If not well controlled, about 5% to 10% of pre-diabetic individuals will develop diabetes every year.
Li Yuxiu, deputy director of the Department of Endocrinology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital: Like those people who do not arrive before the meal, you feel flustered and sweaty, and you are very hungry. It is easy for people to have low blood sugar before the next meal. Instead, it may be in the early stage of diabetes. NS.
Sugar-free foods and beverages can also cause health risks
Medical staff reminded that not only a large amount of sugary beverages can cause diabetes, some sugar-free foods and beverages may also cause health risks.
Mu Yiming, director of the Endocrinology Department of the First Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital: Drinking this sugar-free beverage for a long time, if it is sweet, it usually contains a sweetener. Recent studies have found that it and sugary beverages cause diabetes It is found that there is no essential difference.
On the contrary, these sugar-free, sweet drinks, and sweetened drinks, may be more harmful than our sweet, sugary drinks in terms of causing diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
"Little sugar people" continue to increase, teenagers and children also need to be guarded
In addition, medical staff reminded that diabetes has never been a patent for middle-aged and elderly people.
In recent years, as adolescents and children have become overweight and obese as a public health problem, and long-term excessive consumption of sugary drinks, the number of "little sugar people" suffering from diabetes has been increasing.
Li Yuxiu, deputy director of the Department of Endocrinology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital: Generally speaking, once diabetes develops, insulin treatment may be needed for life.