TRIBUNPAPUABARAT.COM – Diabetes Mellitus (DM) become one of the types of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) which quite a lot of people in Indonesia, even the prevalence rate tends to increase.
This disease arises because of the disruption of the production of the hormone insulin in the pancreas gland.
Though the hormone 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, when a person experiences this disease, his immune system actually attacks and destroys the cells in the pancreas that are the site of insulin production.
While DMT2 occurs when the body becomes immune or resistant to insulin, then there is a buildup of sugar in the blood.
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.
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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