Tribunnews Reporter, Fitri Wulandari
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – During the corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic as it is today, Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is one type of Non-Communicable Disease (PTM) that quite a lot of Indonesians suffer from, even the prevalence rate tends to increase.
This disease arises due to disruption of hormone production insulin on pancreas gland. Even though hormones insulin has a function to regulate the balance of sugar levels in the blood.
Then what is the difference between Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus (DMT1) and Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus (DMT2)?
Quoted from the Healthline page, Tuesday (12/14/2021), DMT1 is an autoimmune disease. insulin.
While DMT2 occurs when the body becomes immune or resistant to insulin, then there is a buildup of sugar in the blood.
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According to the 10th edition of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Atlas, at least 1 in 10 people or as many as 537 million people in the world now have to live with diabetes.
Unfortunately, this figure is projected to continue to increase to reach 643 million in 2030 and 784 million in 2045, if there is no intervention to reduce this prevalence rate.
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Currently, T2DM has affected more than 90 percent of patients worldwide, there were 6.7 million cases of deaths due to this disease in 2021.
It is estimated that every 5 seconds, there is 1 person who dies due to this disease.
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