Montenegro has the second highest prevalence of diabetes in Europe, with 10 percent of the population over the age of 20 suffering from it.
According to the estimate of the International Diabetological Federation, as many as 53,8 citizens suffered from diabetes last year, of which 15 to 20 do not even know they are sick.
Director of the Institute for Public Health, Boban Mugoša, said yesterday at the meeting "Diabetic retinopathy in Montenegro" that even half of those who died from diabetes were under 60 years old.
He pointed out that diabetic retinopathy (which occurs as a result of long-term diabetes) is the fifth leading cause of visual impairment and the fourth leading cause of blindness worldwide.
He explained that the value of sugar in the blood, among other things, determines the risk of the appearance of the consequences of diabetes, such as neuropathy, gangrenous feet, blindness, heart disease...
Data from the Diabetes Registry show that in 2013, 34.058 people suffered from diabetes, of which 50,66 percent were women.
"Type two diabetes was the most common type in Montenegro with 83,20 percent, and the largest number of people with diabetes are between the ages of 40 and 59," says the presentation of the head of the Registry, Dragan Likić.
It is stated that the data clearly indicate that almost a quarter of adults at the time of diagnosis of type 2 diabetes already have some complication, and as many as 5,96 percent have diabetic retinopathy.
The data show that the number of people with elevated values of risk factors, such as elevated cholesterol, blood pressure and obesity, which lead to the disease, is worrying.
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