The lifestyle is a killer who makes millions of dead

Cessing cities mainly because of incorrect lifestyles such as physical inactivity responsible for obesity and diabetes related in turn risk developing an illness cardiovascular and tumors .

World Health Organization experts estimate that globally, about 36 million deaths from noncommunicable diseases, two-thirds are attributable to the risks badociated with urbanization

The 11th Forum Italian on the Barometer of Diabetes and Obesity is currently underway in Rome, promoted by the Italian Foundation of the Diabetes Observatory (Ibdo), University "Tor Vergata" of Rome, Sanitary City Institute, Observatory National Health in the Italian Regions, I-Com – Institute for Competitiveness and Climate Change Diabetes, under the patronage of Rome and the unconditional contribution of Novo Nordisk

ascolari – reminded the experts – represent the main cause of deceased; With tumors, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases are today the main risk for human health and development. "The environment created by urbanization has a strong impact on the health of citizens," says Andrea Lenzi, Chair of the Biosafety, Biotechnology and Life Sciences Committee of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and President of Institute of Public Health.

"The data we have, however, indicate that only a third of the problem is related to air pollution, although two-thirds are related to individual behavior that often the lifestyle of the city leads to adopt and seriously endanger health "

physical inactivity in fact, causes 3.2 million deaths each year, hypertension 0.4 million, obesity [19659007] is responsible for 4.4 million annual deaths and pollution of 3.7 million

Not only, by an badysis of the impact on health systems in economic terms showed that physical inactivity cost more than 37 million in 2013, between health care costs and lost productivity, diabetes has led to an increase in health spending from 612 to over 1 trillion of dollars over the last 10 years and the pollution atmospheric impact on health costs. $ 21 billion in 2015.

"Diseases like diabetes and obesity, also responsible for increased cardiovascular risk, are a serious problem for cities," says Francesco Purrello, president of the Italian Society of Diabetology (Sid). "Just think – he continues – that 65% of people with diabetes live in urban areas and that 44% of all cases of type 2 diabetes are due specifically to obesity and overweight, These diseases are all the more worrisome as the overall risk of premature death doubles every 5 points of growth in body mbad index: a person with diabetes and overweight presents so a risk of death multiplied by two in the 10 years a person with normal weight diabetes and a person with diabetes and obese even a quadrupled risk. "

Then, adds the expert," what Is called "diabetics" is closely related to the leading cause of death absolutely: cardiovascular disease: the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in diabetes, that is to say the number of people with diabetes who experience at least one cardiovascular event in their life, it is 23.2%: in practice one out of 4. "

The problem can no longer be underestimated," all the more so as the growth of the Worldwide urban population is accelerating each year by about 60 million people, "says Domenico Mannino, president of the Diabetologists Medical Association (AMD).

"According to the International Diabetes Federation, over the next 25 years, 3 people with diabetes over the age of 4 will be living in cities, and municipal administrators will increasingly be at the cutting edge of working with physicians. synergy between the municipal administration, universities, research institutes and private entrepreneurship can therefore be important. "