Global Burden of Diabetes and its Complications - Mumbai

About approx. 425 million peoples are diabetic in 2017. 5 to 10 percent have type 1 and 90 to 95 percent have type 2 diabetes. By 2045 it will rise to 629 million.

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder in which the body capacity to utilize glucose is disturbed due to impairment in insulin secretion or insulin resistance leading to chronic hyperglycemia.

Individuals may be classified as having pre-diabetes or diabetes based on their fasting blood glucose or postprandial blood glucose.

Gestational diabetes: it is due to insulin blocking hormones produced during pregnancy.it only Occur during pregnancy.

Symptoms: excessive thirst and hunger, frequenturination,drowsiness or fatigue, dry, itchy skin, blurry vision, slow healing wounds, pain or numbness in feet, brittle nail,dark patches in the folds of skin, major weight loss.

Complications in pregnancy: High blood Pressure , preeclampsia, miscarriage or stillbirth, birth defects.

To know more: <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://www.murarihealthcare.com/global-burden-of-diabetes-and-its-complications/" target="_blank">https://www.murarihealthcare.com/global-burden-of-diabetes-and-its-complications/</a>