TRIBUNJOGJA.COM – Diabetes or diabetes is a disease associated with high blood sugar levels.
Diabetes is known as a silent killer or silent killer.
Diabetes is a serious threat to public health because of its gradual development and can cause dangerous complications.
Diabetes does not only affect adults or the elderly.
Age under 30 years can also get this disease.
Diabetes mellitus tends to be experienced by many young people and has the potential to be a silent killer.
Quoted from Kompas.com, This was conveyed by the General Chairperson of the Indonesian Endocrinology Association (Perkeni), Prof. Dr. dr Ketut Suastika SpPD-KEMD in an online discussion entitled World Diabetes Day 2020: The Importance of Cargiver’s Role and Time to Be Aware and Careful Diabetes, Tuesday (3/11/2020).
Suastika said, when people under 30 years of age have diabetes, they are usually diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.
This condition makes people who have diabetes have less body weight between the ages of 5-15 years.
However, in recent years, there have been many cases of young people with type 2 diabetes.
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