new YORK (Reuters Health) – in China, the most common type of

diabetes grew 30 percent in just seven years, according to

reveals a survey of thousands of inhabitants of Shanghai.

“Obviously there is a pattern we see over and over again in

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the world”, said Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, Vice President of

global health at Emory University, in United States.

Persons with type 2 diabetes cannot process the

blood sugar, but need not apply insulin for

disease control.

To increase the wealth of the countries, factors of the

lifestyle associated with type 2 diabetes, as the

overweight and unhealthy food and a sedentary lifestyle, is

become increasingly common.

“In contrast to the gradual transition of the majority of

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Western countries, these changes in China were fast”,

wrote in the journal Diabetes Care team of Dr. Rui Li,

the Municipal Center of Shanghai for the Control and prevention

of diseases.

The authors interviewed more than 12,000 people in the

2002-2003, which asked them if they had

diagnosed type 2 diabetes and controlled them to detect the

disease in which there had never been review. The

9.7 per cent had diabetes.

In 2009, the team returned to 7,400 people interview

and 12.6 percent had the disease. “That is an increase

impressive in seven years”, Koplan told Reuters Health.

The increase was most significant in the inhabitants of

rural areas, from 6.1 to 9.8 per cent, i.e. a 60 by

% increase.

The National Institute of Diabetes and digestive diseases

and kidney estimated that 8.3 percent of Americans

has diabetes.

In 2010, China went on to lead the list of countries with the

largest number of diabetics, with 92 million affected.

The study did not identify the causes of the rise of the

diabetes and Koplan recalled studies on the increase of the

wealth of weight and fat saturated in the food of

china’s population.

The expert also noted that people rely on

more than the car and walk or bicycle used increasingly less.

“All of these factors would influence the growth of the

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prevalence of diabetes type 2 “, said Koplan, than not

participated in the study.

The authors write that the ageing of the population

of China would explain in part the results.

Older adults are more likely to develop diabetes

type 2 and the team found that 20 percent of the

residents of Shanghai has more than 60 years, a proportion that

is increasing.

Source: Diabetes Care, online March 19, 2012