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Soar in diabetes linked to growing obesity rates
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Posted February 24, 2009The UK has seen an explosion of people contracting diabetes due to the rising obesity rates.
There has been a 74% increase of new cases from 1997 to 2003. In 2005, more than 4% of the population was classed as having diabetes which is double the amount 10 years ago.
The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports the bulk of these cases are type 2 diabetes which is linked to being overweight or obese. These findings suggest that diabetes is increasing at a faster rate in the UK than in the US, where occurrence of the disease is the highest in the world.
The number of type 1 diabetes which is ‘insulin dependent’ has remained constant over the decade, whereas type 2, which is linked to lifestyle made up over 98% of the 42,642 new cases diagnosed between 1996 and 2005.
Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum said projections suggested the worst was yet to come:
“Rates of obesity and diabetes will continue to rise unless we do something urgently.”
Shadow Health Minister Anne Milton said: “We need to see proactive policies which look to reduce obesity rather than policies that simply treat the effects of it.”
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