Increase cases of type 1 diabetes in children around the world
The cases of type 1 diabetes have increased worldwide although very particularly among Finnish minors, says an article published in the medical magazine 'The Lancet'.
The worldwide increase per year of that type of diabetes has been between 2.5% and 3%, and the trend is more pronounced among four -year -old and less children.It is believed that the increase is due to the fact that it manifests at an earlier age and not to an increase in the number of patients suffering from the disease at some point in their lives.
In front of Venezuela or China, where the incidence records the minimum levels -the increase between 1990 and 1999 was only 0.1 percent -among Finnish children, diabetes dependent on insulin has more than doubled in the last twenty -fiveyears, and the trend will continue.Behind Finland are in the incidence of the disease, the Italian island of Sardinia, with an increase of 38 per 100,000, Sweden, 30 percent, and Kuwait, 22.3 percent also between 1990 and 1999, last years of which whichThere are reliable data.
A team led by Valma Harjutso, from the Helsinki Public Health Institute, registered a total of 10,737 children of both sexes to which type 1 diabetes was diagnosed before turning fifteen, between 1980 and 2005. In the periodConsidered, diabetes went from 31.4 percent to 64.2 per 100,000.The greatest increase - 4.7% per year - occurred in the age group of up to four years.
Based on these data, experts calculate in about 10,800 the number of new cases of type 1 diabetes of people under fifteen between 2006 and 2020. In general, Europe and North America are high incidence regions while in South Americaand Central America The incidence is very variable.In most Asian countries, the incidence is less than 1 percent a year.The irruption of type 1 diabetes is attributed to genetic and environmental risk factors.The levels of obesity among Finnish children have grown.
