Now, the big reveal. How much have diabetes rates increased in the last 20 years?https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/986746821857886208 …
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Not quite as much as everyone thinks, but enough It's about 6% now So a fourfold increase in diabetes rates since the late 90s
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BUT remember what I said above about changed diagnostic criteria? Yes, diabetes rates have shot up, but a part of that increase is to do with what we call 'diabetes'
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And this increase is largely being driven by one thing: type 2 diabetes! The answer here is ~roughly~ 10:90, with type 1 making up 1 in 10 patients with diabeteshttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/986750411221577729 …
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So, diabetes rates have gone from 1.5% to 6% in only two decades This is bad
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But wait! Remember, these figures are only for DIAGNOSED patients What percentage of people with diabetes are currently living undiagnosed?
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And the answer is... Trick question! What you see above is a list of estimates, but the answer is we don't really know
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The WHO says it's probably around 20%. Work done by my team found it to be more like 33% in a high acuity patient population. More recent work done by me is looking to be 12-15% in the general population http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/204871/9789241565257_eng.pdf;jsessionid=CB03C43BE57BBF27E96366E2E2E9E9C8?sequence=1 …
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But the basic answer is: a lot. Even if the number is only 15%, you're still pushing that 6% estimate up to 8 or even 9%
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Diabetes is going up. This is VERY BAD. What is the main driver behind this increase?
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Forgot to answer this below, so it is increased weight gain. Dietary habits play a part, epigenetics have a role, but the vast majority of this increase is because we are as a society putting on weight
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