In Montenegro, about six percent of the population suffers from diabetes, which significantly burdens the national health system, announced the Minister of Health, Miodrag Radunović. The expert meeting of the Guidelines for improving the reporting of patients with diabetes and diagnostic criteria was held today in Podgorica, on the occasion of World Diabetes Day.
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Radunović said that diabetes is a chronic non-communicable disease which, along with other diseases from this group, is responsible for the overall increase in the population's burden of diseases that significantly burden the national health system. "According to the estimates of the International Diabetes Federation IDF, the frequency of diabetes for the age group from 20 to 79 years is up to six percent, and in Europe it is 8,4 percent. It was estimated that in 2011, about six percent of the population of Montenegro has diabetes," said Radunović. As he stated, about half of that number were not aware of their condition at the time of blood glucose determination.
"This number of people with impaired regulation of diabetes is expected to grow at a rate of ten percent for the period of the next five years," announced Radunović. He said that the state annually has direct costs for the prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications of more than two million euros. The head of the Diabetes Registry, Dragan Likić, said that at the global level, a lot of money is allocated for the care of people with diabetes.
He does not have information on the amount allocated in Montenegro for that purpose. According to him, the number of deaths in countries that allocate little for the care of people with diabetes is almost twice as high as in developed countries. "The estimated number of deaths from the total population in Montenegro was 512 people, and last year more than 57 thousand people lived with diabetes, and 67 thousand with chronically elevated glycemia," Likić said. He said that there are people in Montenegro who suffer from diabetes and don't know it. "About 15 thousand people don't know it, and neither does the health system," said Likić. Director of the Institute for Public Health, Boban Mugoša, said that it is not yet possible to talk about reliable data on the incidence of chronic non-communicable diseases because, as he explained, high-quality national registries are just starting to work. "The existing data and the research carried out so far indicate that the most important challenge faced by the population is the practice of unhealthy lifestyles, which mean immediate exposure to numerous harmful effects on health," stated Mugoša. According to him, a special problem is improper nutrition, which is primarily reflected in the increased intake of salt, concentrated sugar and saturated fats, which, as he stated, increases the risk of high blood pressure and diabetes, which further represent risk factors for the occurrence of numerous diseases, primarily cardio and cerebrovascular. According to him, the most widespread diseases in Montenegro, that is, the largest share of the country's disease burden, are chronic mass diseases. "This group includes cardiovascular diseases, chronic diseases of the respiratory system, diabetes, malignant neoplasms and injuries," said Mugoša. He stated that one of the ways that can contribute to the control and improvement of health care against chronic non-communicable diseases is the establishment of registers that enable the monitoring of the occurrence of illness and death in the population in a certain territory.
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