DISCLOSURE OF DIABETES IN ITALY, EUROPE, THE WORLD
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Dissemination of Diabetes in Italy
The National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) carries out an annual monitoring the state of health of the Italian population of some health behaviors and lifestyles. The data reported in the statistical yearbook Istat 2010 reveal that diabetes is 4.9% of Italians (5.2% of women and 4.5% of men), approximately 2,960,000 people.
According to another source, the 2010 data of the monitoring steps, made from a pool of ASL participants, the percentage of people who report having been diagnosed with diabetes is 5%.
There was a difference between North and South Italy with higher values in the south: in particular, in the province of Bolzano there is the lowest (2%), while the highest in Basilicata (8%). With regard to risk factors associated with diabetes in people with diabetes, 55% had received a diagnosis of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia 45%, 75% are overweight (BMI ≥ 25), 39% are sedentary and 22 % smoker.
Dissemination of Diabetes in Europe
According to the WHO Europe, 52 million people in Europe suffer from diabetes. The presence of diabetes is on the rise across Europe coming, in some states, at a rate of 10-14% of the population. This increase is partly due to the general aging of the population but mainly to the spread of hazardous conditions such as overweight and obesity, unhealthy eating, physical inactivity and economic inequalities.
Spread of diabetes in the world
According to the WHO, there are about 346 million people with diabetes worldwide.
More than 80% of deaths related to this disease occur in low and middle income countries.
The WHO estimated that deaths from diabetes are expected to double between 2005 and 2030 (in 2004, the data refer to 3.4 million people disappeared because of the consequences of a high level of sugar in the blood).
Italy - 1 million people with diabetes in more than 10 years each: € 9.2 billion social cost.
The number of people with diabetes in Italy increased by almost 1 million in 10 years, from less than 4 out of 100 Italians, 5 out of 100.
Many advances have been made in ten years for the care and treatment, while a lot remains to be done for the prevention of diabetes. "The Ministry of Health - said Renato Lauro, Chiar of Italian Barometer Diabetes Observatory and Rector of the University of Rome Tor Vergata - has set up a standing committee which aims to prepare a national plan and diabetes in the National Health Plan 2011 -2013 poses the disease among its priorities".
The cost to the NHS is to advocate for diabetes is very high: as many as 1 million euro per hour, for a total of € 9.2 billion per year, equivalent to 9% of all the resources available to the health of our country.
Specifically: it is not the treatment of diabetes in itself that it costs more, but that its complications: in fact, only 7% of the expenditure relates to drugs, while 25% is bound to treatments for complications and comorbidities and 68% is related to hospitalization and outpatient care.Diabetes is what the UN has described as a serious public health problem for the planet. It is estimated that the number of people affected by diabetes worldwide will grow continuously, as well as deaths due to diabetes.
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