Free check-ups and consultations on diabetes were offered at anawareness raising event in Ho Chi Minh City on November 14 on thelife-threatening disease and healthy lifestyles.
The event is part of a series of activities in response to World Diabetes Day (November 14).
Over the last 10 years, diabetes has increased at an alarming rate of300 percent in the city, much higher than the country’s average.
As much as 7.9 percent and 35.6 percent of the municipal adultpopulation suffer from diabetes and pre-diabetes, respectively.
Director of Ho Chi Minh City Nutrition Centre, Do Thi Ngoc Diep, saidthe growing number of local diabetes patients is to blame onprotein-laden diets and a lack of physical activity.
Meanwhile, in northern Bac Giang province a number of projects havebeen implemented to prevent and control the disease, according to TranVan Sinh, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Health.
As much as 70 percent of local patients have benefitted from the projects.
Director of Bac Giang’s Endocrine Disease and Malaria PreventionCentre, Hoang Xuan Thuc, said the centre has undertaken maximum effortsto facilitate patients’ access to consultations, medical services andmedication, having served nearly 50,000 patients so far this year.
The locality also aims to enhance medical staff’s capacity andcommunication efforts to ensure effective prevention and control of thedisease in the community.
As a chronic disease,diabetes increases the risk of other serious health problems, such asblindness or heart and kidney failure.
Medicalexperts said diabetes and its complications can be prevented throughearly treatment, staying in good physical shape and eating healthily.
In Vietnam , around five percent and 27 percentof the population suffer from diabetes or are at risk of developingdiabetes, respectively.
Notably, 65 percent ofpatients have not been officially diagnosed, and a majority of thosethat have been diagnosed have yet to receive proper treatment.
In the 1990s, diabetes affected 1.2 percent of thepopulation of 20- to 79-year-olds. The rate jumped to 2.7 percent in2002 and 5.7 percent in 2012.
People suffering from obesity and high blood pressure face a higher risk of developing diabetes.-VNA
The event is part of a series of activities in response to World Diabetes Day (November 14).
Over the last 10 years, diabetes has increased at an alarming rate of300 percent in the city, much higher than the country’s average.
As much as 7.9 percent and 35.6 percent of the municipal adultpopulation suffer from diabetes and pre-diabetes, respectively.
Director of Ho Chi Minh City Nutrition Centre, Do Thi Ngoc Diep, saidthe growing number of local diabetes patients is to blame onprotein-laden diets and a lack of physical activity.
Meanwhile, in northern Bac Giang province a number of projects havebeen implemented to prevent and control the disease, according to TranVan Sinh, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Health.
As much as 70 percent of local patients have benefitted from the projects.
Director of Bac Giang’s Endocrine Disease and Malaria PreventionCentre, Hoang Xuan Thuc, said the centre has undertaken maximum effortsto facilitate patients’ access to consultations, medical services andmedication, having served nearly 50,000 patients so far this year.
The locality also aims to enhance medical staff’s capacity andcommunication efforts to ensure effective prevention and control of thedisease in the community.
As a chronic disease,diabetes increases the risk of other serious health problems, such asblindness or heart and kidney failure.
Medicalexperts said diabetes and its complications can be prevented throughearly treatment, staying in good physical shape and eating healthily.
In Vietnam , around five percent and 27 percentof the population suffer from diabetes or are at risk of developingdiabetes, respectively.
Notably, 65 percent ofpatients have not been officially diagnosed, and a majority of thosethat have been diagnosed have yet to receive proper treatment.
In the 1990s, diabetes affected 1.2 percent of thepopulation of 20- to 79-year-olds. The rate jumped to 2.7 percent in2002 and 5.7 percent in 2012.
People suffering from obesity and high blood pressure face a higher risk of developing diabetes.-VNA
