Type 2 diabetes is considered the epidemic of the 21st century, as it affects 51 million people in Europe, more than 5 million in Spain and 145,000 in the Region of Murcia.In addition, specialists foresee an increase in the next ten years due to population aging, sedentary lifestyle and industrialized food.
The main cause of type 2 diabetes between people with genetic predisposition to disease is obesity.From the International Diabetes Federation also highlight that one in each eleven adults has diabetes (415 million) and one in ten will have this disease in 2040 (642 million people).However, only one in 2 adults with diabetes is diagnosed.
Specialists call attention to the importance of preventing this disease that kills a person every 6 seconds and that represents 12 percent of the world -lived in health, mainly because Europe has the highest prevalence rate of children with type 1 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease that implies an increase between three and four times of the cardiovascular morbidity and mortality of those who suffer from it.In the Region of Murcia the prevalence of diabetes is 12 percent of the general population, and between 80 and 95 percent of these cases are of type 2.