World Diabetes Day focuses on the family in 2018 and 2019

Brussels / Geneva, November 14 (TASR) – The family is in 2018 and 2019 the theme of World Diabetes Day on November 14th. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has been informed on its website.

IDF has chosen two years to facilitate participation in the World Diabetes Day campaign, to facilitate the preparation of a plan and to ensure support and participation in the campaign. The IDF headquarters in Brussels emphasized that the campaign aims to promote the role of the family in the management, care, prevention and education of diabetes (technically: diabetes mellitus, other names: diabetes, sweet dysentery).

More than 425 million people live with diabetes. Most of them have diabetes mellitus of the second type, said IDF.

The International Diabetes Federation declared World Diabetes Day with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1991 to address the growing incidence of this disease worldwide. The goal of World Diabetes Day is to raise awareness, improve care for people with disabilities and, in particular, promote better prevention.

In 2007, this day was celebrated for the first time in the world in the sense that it was officially proclaimed by the United Nations (UN). The General Assembly approved resolution 20 of 20 December 2006 recognizing the seriousness of this disease. 61/225, making World Diabetes Day World Day of the United Nations. The United Nations team announced Nov. 14 a new status to make diabetes mellitus a real public health problem.

World Diabetes Day marks the birth of Canadian Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941), who, along with Charles Herbert Best (1899-1978), isolated a clinically useful pancreatic insulin in October 1921.

In 1922, Banting and Best tested the effectiveness of insulin and then passed it on to a 14-year-old boy to save his life. In 1923, Frederick Grant Banting and Scottish physiologist John James Ricardo MacLeod won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin.

World Diabetes Day is a campaign to bring diabetic diabetes patients together at the international level while raising awareness of healthy people living with diabetes. Experts predict that the number of diabetic patients will increase, especially with regard to unhealthy lifestyles and the aging of the population.

The development of diabetes is associated with risk factors such as sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy diet, obesity and predisposition. A diabetic patient is at risk for the disease to also manifest in other organs: for example, blindness (leading to blindness), kidneys, cardiovascular system, wound healing, etc.

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder due to insulin deficiency or poor efficacy. There is a bad use of glucose (sugar) in the body.

Diabetes mellitus is divided into two main types. The first type is so called. Insulin-dependent diabetes, which occurs more often at an earlier age, can lead to serious acute complications and conditions. The second type, independent of insulin, occurs earlier in the elderly, often obese, who present hereditary conditions prior to the disease.