China Has Already Become Superpower of Diabetes

According to the survey, the incidence rate of diabetes in China has been as high as 9.7%. In other words, about one in ten adult is diabetic patient. The survey also found that the incidence rate of young and middle-aged obviously has been increasing.

In recent decades, the development of global economy is generally fast, especially in developing countries such as China. With the process of urbanization accelerates, the phenomenon of population aging aggravates and people’s living standards greatly improves, diabetes also increase rapidly. According to statistical data, the number of diabetes in china reaches 92.4 million, which is much higher than expected. In the past, the highest incidence rate of diabetes was India, following by China. There is no new statistical from India, so China has already become world superpower of diabetes.

The previous survey showed that women were more likely to suffer from diabetes. However, this is not the case from this survey. Why men are more likely to suffer from diabetes after 10 years? The factor may the significant change in lifestyle, social pressure and so on, which results in obesity, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia and diabetes.