Explosion Of Type 2 Diabetes Headed For Australia
Watch out Australia! This is not earth shattering news but it does go to show just how prevalent diabetes is around the world. The University of Queensland School of Population Health is predicting and explosion of type 2 diabetes across Australia. And I mean explosion… like more than double by the year 2023. Wow!!
The researchers studied 14 key risk factors that that make up what they coin DALY, disability adjusted life year. What key factors attributed the most to the prediction associated with type 2 diabetes? Tobacco use, high blood pressure, high body mass, physical inactivity and alcohol consumption.
But there is good news in all of this. If you look at the factors above, they are all controllable.
“All of the health risks are open to modification through intervention”
So get on up, get moving, put down that cigarette and hit the produce section at your local grocery! Easy enough, haha. Seriously, we need to make chances now to change the future for the better.
via University of Queensland
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Jan 19, 2008 at 10:40 am
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