History and the prevalence of diabetes

Posted by darai on October 11, 2008 in Diabetes

Diabetes Discovery of the

China is the world’s first diabetes awareness of one of the countries. In the pre-Qin period, “Huainanzi. Motto said that the three, “said:” Consumers of married women in, after the death of husband-is also difficult. ” Consumers here means of Consumers disease, diabetes for the earliest of ancient. Diabetes Chinese medicine for diabetes patients said. Diabetes is a disease of the ancient, far in 2000, China’s medical literature on diabetes disease have been recorded. Chinese medicine practitioners will have more thirsty to drink, more urine, good food and more hungry, and thinner weakness (that is a little more than three syndrome) patients as “Diabetes Disease” that Zaore Yin is the result of a disease , Ziyin heat with the drug (situ, Scrophulariaceae, pollen, etc.) can improve urinary symptoms and more thirsty. Chinese classics Medical Books - “Huang Di Nei Jing” according to different disease machines, were the main card that “Diabetes” and “eliminate Dan”, “Lung Consumers”, “Li Xiao,” and “Cancellation”. Ancient Medical Books “Explanation of infrequent” explained: “Consumers want to have to drink” he said. “Ancient disease further reduced” to explain: “…… Jinye Diabetes, it also Yude water.” Statement in the Sui and Tang Dynasties period Zhenli “Ancient and Modern in the prescription,” says: “Keer drinking water, urine few…… sweet, Diabetes is a disease are also.” Mingzhi Wei Diabetes disease, characterized by more urine: “The people on the 1st of a water bucket, Also a urine bucket. “Zhang Han Dynasty” Golden Chamber “contains:” Keyu more than drinking water, “” Keyu drinking water, Kouganshezao. ” These records with symptoms similar to diabetes. Diabetes patients of Chinese medicine, there are broad and narrow the points. Diabetes is generalized disease that is thirsty to drink thinner and more symptoms of various diseases, including diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, fever dehydration, hyperthyroidism, and so on. Diabetes disease was only narrowly now equivalent to the diabetes. If only Diabetes disease symptoms, but not elevated blood sugar, can be called Diabetes disease, it can not be called diabetes.

India is also documented diabetes earlier, about 500 years BC to AD 400 years, the ancient Sanskrit Medical Books The Susruta Samhita Tian Rumi is contained in the urine treatment. In the West Roman times, about 30 BC Aulua Cornelius also described diabetes. Arabs in Asia (about 850 to 892 AD), also see the historical records of the diabetes. Year 1674, the United Kingdom found that the urine sweet personnel, to be called diabetes. This record than the Chinese people 1,000 years later. With the development of science and technology, people also found that the “hyperglycemia” is the basic characteristic of the disease. But “diabetes” and the name has not changed. Now, “diabetes” has become a well-known modern medicine.

Diabetes Epidemiology

From these records, the earliest origins of diabetes are rooted in economic and cultural development of countries and regions. With the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, the incidence of diabetes has also increased dramatically to the trend. Diabetes in recent years has become a frequently-occurring disease, both in the developed countries or developing countries, have been or are in the process became the tumors, cardio-cerebral vascular diseases and the third largest after serious chronic non-infectious diseases on people’s physical and mental health of a Great harm. By the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the world’s three major disease.

10 years ago the global diabetes 30 million people, in 1997 WHO report, the world’s diabetic patients up to 125 million in 2000, has reached 160 million, is expected in 2025 will increase to 299 million. The incidence rate of industrialized countries is higher than the developing countries. The United States the incidence rate is five percent to six percent, but growth trend in recent years, an annual increase of six percent of patients. Since the liberation of our country as the improvement of living standards, the growing incidence of diabetes increased in 1980 to 0.67 percent in 1994 to 2.4 percent in 1994, the incidence of diabetes in 1980 increased by three times in 1999 or To 3.5 percent, China has diabetes patients in more than 30 million, some 30 years is expected to reach 50 million people, will account for the number of new countries in the world’s first diabetes. Rural and mountain areas below the city. 1992 11 Chinese provinces and cities of cardiovascular disease risk factors cohort study showed that in 35 to 64-year-old crowd in diabetes prevalence rate for 4.2%,.

National survey data show that the prevalence rate higher than that of the elderly or young children. American Diabetes is the peak prevalence rate of 65 to 75-year-old, my information is below the minimum 20-year-old, jumped over the age of 40 (5.8 percent), 60-year-old group was the highest (42.7 percent), the peak in the 70-year-old male The above group (46.91 percent), women peak at the age of 60 (43.34%).

Early diabetes have no apparent symptoms, not aware, in China and the Western industrial countries have a large number of diabetic patients unable to obtain timely diagnosis and treatment. Diabetes and eating too much and the major activities to reduce obesity-related, if not adopt a scientific way of life, incidence rates will continue to rise, up more than 10 per cent, but if we take effective measures to actively combat diabetes, the incidence of diabetes Control is expected at 6% to 8%. Therefore, raising awareness of diabetes, the importance of early diagnosis and found that impaired glucose tolerance to take timely measures to prevent 40 percent of the population in diabetes. Effective prevention and treatment of disease and is now worthy of attention.

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