World Diabetes Day: 14 November – Current Affairs 15/11/2019 – Posted in: Daily News – Tags: type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes
World Diabetes Day
World Diabetes Day, 14 November, is the primary global awareness campaign focusing on diabetes mellitus and is held on 14th November each year.
Diabetes
Diabetes is a condition in which the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood connot use properly. We get glucose from starchy foods in our diets such as pasta, bread and cakes.
The theme for diabetes awareness month and World Diabetes Day 2019 is “Family and Diabetes”.
- 2013: Protect our Future: Diabetes Education and Prevention.
- 2014: Go Blue for Breakfast.
- 2015: Healthy Eating.
- 2016: Eyes on Diabetes.
- 2017: Women and diabetes – our right to a healthy future.
- 2018–2019: The Family and Diabetes – diabetes concerns every family.
Led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) each World Diabetes Day focuses on a theme related to diabetes.
- Type-2 diabetes is the largely preventable and treatable non-communicable disease that is rapidly increasing in numbers worldwide.
- Type-1 diabetes is not preventable but can be managed with insulin injections.
Several risk factors have been associated with type 2 diabetes and include:
- Family history of diabetes
- Overweight
- Unhealthy diet
- Physical inactivity
- Increasing age
- High blood pressure
- Ethnicity
- Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)
- History of gestational diabetes
- Poor nutrition during pregnancy
Background
The day itself marks the birthday of Frederick Banting who, along with Charles Best and John James Rickard Macleod, first conceived the idea which led to the discovery of insulin in 1922.
World Diabetes Day was launched in 1991 by the IDF and the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to the rapid rise of diabetes around the world.
The Difference Between Type-1 and Type-2 Diabetes
Source: The Hindu
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