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Bookmark or Share- Diabetes - World Health Organization (WHO)Diabetes. Diabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose (or blood sugar), which leads over time to serious damage to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves. The most common is type 2 diabetes, usually in adults, which occurs when the body becomes resistant to insulin or doesn't make ...
- World Diabetes Day - World Health Organization (WHO)14 November is World Diabetes Day. Established in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation with support from WHO in response to growing concerns about the health and economic threat posed by diabetes, World Diabetes Day became an official UN day in 2006.
- Diabetes - World Health Organization (WHO)La diabetes es una causa importante de ceguera, insuficiencia renal, infarto de miocardio, accidente cerebrovascular y amputación de miembros inferiores. Entre 2000 y 2019, las tasas de mortalidad por diabetes normalizadas por edades aumentaron en un 3%. En 2019, la diabetes y la nefropatía diabética causaron dos millones de defunciones.
- Diabetes - World Health Organization (WHO)Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke and lower limb amputation. Between 2000 and 2019, there was a 3% increase in diabetes mortality rates by age. In 2019, diabetes and kidney disease due to diabetes caused an estimated 2 million deaths.
- Diabetes - World Health Organization (WHO)Type 1 diabetes is characterized by insufficient production of insulin – a hormone that regulates glucose (sugar) in the blood – by the pancreas. This type of diabetes is usually genetic, and is treated with daily insulin given through a pump or injections. It often presents quite suddenly in young people, with symptoms including excessive ...
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