The increase in the number of people suffering from diabetes in the world is still present, it was announced today from the Institute for Public Health of Montenegro (IJZCG).
"Unfortunately, this trend is more than certain in the coming decades of this century. According to estimates by the International Diabetes Federation, the number of adults suffering from diabetes on the planet will increase by more than 50% by 2045. For the same period, an increase of 15% is expected in Europe", the press release of IJZCG, signed by Dragan Likić, head of the Diabetes Registry, points out.
The announcement adds that over 29.700 adults in Montenegro have been diagnosed with diabetes (data from the Register of Diabetes Mellitus of the IJZCG and health records of health centers).
"The national prevalence of diabetes is about 11%. The share of undetected-undiagnosed diabetes in the prevalence of diabetes is over 20.000 adults. In other words, every ninth adult citizen of Montenegro has diabetes, and every third patient has not been diagnosed with diabetes. The working-age population is at great risk from the incidence and development of complications of diabetes in Montenegro. Annually, 65% of people diagnosed with diabetes are under the age of 60. Complications are diagnosed in 9%. Half of the patients who have complications are under 65 years of age," the announcement reads.
IJZCG said that adopted lifestyle habits that lead to physical inactivity and an increase in body mass with the appearance of an increase in abdominal (abdominal) obesity directly contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes.
"Among adult residents of Montenegro suffering from diabetes, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is about 95%. There is also a high prevalence of physically inactive patients (40%), as well as patients with increased body mass (80%), and those who have developed risky abdominal obesity (70%). Every year between 30 and 40 people under the age of 20 fall ill with diabetes in Montenegro. Type 15, type 1 and gestational diabetes are recorded in people over the age of 2. Children (age up to 14 ) almost exclusively suffer from type 1 diabetes. Annually, between 20 and 30 children develop type 1 diabetes," said the IJZCG.
That institution said that gestational diabetes is a special type of diabetes that can appear in the second or third trimester of pregnancy.
"Annually, between 20 and 40 pregnant women with this type of diabetes are registered in the Diabetes Registry. Montenegro is a country with a high prevalence of diabetes patients with a national prevalence of around 11% and a further tendency to increase the number of new cases. A lifestyle with bad eating habits and lack of appropriate and sufficient physical activity, together with family inheritance and an increasingly elderly population, represent the main generator of the increase in type 2 diabetes patients. On the other hand, accepting and implementing broad social education about the importance of lifestyle habits for health preservation would significantly (up to 50%) reduce the number of diabetes patients diabetes. In the foreseeable future, the decrease in the number of patients would also have a significant financial effect on reducing health care costs. Until the pandemic of the new corona virus, over one fifth of those who died during the calendar year had diabetes during their lifetime," said the IJZCG.
They stated that Europe is the region in the world with the largest number of children suffering from type 1 diabetes, and in that broader context, the number of children suffering from diabetes in Montenegro should be viewed.
"Therefore, we are facing a time when a sustainable plan to reduce the incidence of diabetes in Montenegro must be adopted on the basis of a broad social consensus," concludes the announcement of the IJZCG.
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