The incidence of complications of diabetes is extremely high morbidity and mortality rates are very high. Blindness, amputations ... ... these terrible disability, fatal complications are closely related to a disease, it is diabetes. China-Japan Friendship Hospital of Endocrinology, LI Guang-wei, director of a few days ago in an interview with reporters said of diabetes superficial, but very serious harm. Studies have shown that the incidence of diabetes after 10 years, 30% -40% of patients with at least a complication occurs. Therefore, be sure to guard against "the scourge of diabetes." Experts, diabetes is due to insulin secretion and (or) the role of defects in glucose-induced increase in metabolic diseases characterized. As long as blood sugar control, diabetes can be life-long ill patients survive. However, the most horrible thing is that the incidence of complications of diabetes is extremely high morbidity and mortality rates are very high. Complications of diabetes at two major categories of acute and chronic. Among them, acute complications, including diabetic ketoacidosis, diabetes, such as lactic acidosis; chronic complications including diabetic retinopathy and blindness, diabetes, renal disease (leading to severe renal failure), diabetic foot (leading to serious amputation), large vascular disease (leading to severe myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular disease) and so on. Clinical statistics show that 40% -50% of diabetic patients after 10 years in the incidence of retinopathy occurred; about 2% of patients after 15 years in the incidence of total blindness; 5% -10% of patients with the disease 20 years after the end of the deteriorating into end-stage renal disease. China-Japan Friendship Hospital Endocrinology reception each year with diabetes for more than 40,000 people, some patients with the tragedy of his heart. A 18-year-old foreign girls who died of type Ⅱ diabetes treatment, one expert suggested that her insulin injection therapy. The father of girls afraid of addiction refused insulin injections. 3 years later, experts see the girls again, the blind father, she was using a stickRoad. There is one more than 50-year-old Beijing residents with diabetes 15 years, and usually do not care, not the law of medicine. On one occasion, hefeet when his right foot, and later wound infection, ulceration. He thought to keep the lives of amputees, did not expect, amputation 3 years after the sudden death of a myocardial infarction. " 'The scourge of diabetes' startling, urgent need to strengthen prevention." Expert cautioned that in all earnestness. This reporter has learned that diabetes mellitus by the Chinese Medical Association completed credits will be the latest epidemiological survey of diabetes in China: At present, in China's urban population, with diabetes, about 41 million people, than the International Diabetes Federation estimated that in 2003 the 39.8 million people more than 100 million people. In addition, 14 provinces and cities across the country for nearly 50,000 people found in the 20-year-old -70 year-old population, the incidence of diabetes than men 12 percent, than women and the incidence of the total population are higher than about 2 %. Young men become the main force of diabetes groups. In order to effectively deal with rapid increase in diabetes incidence trends and younger, by the Ministry of Health and other departments to launch the "China plans to stimulate the dissemination of health knowledge" will be the subject of publicity in 2008 identified as "diabetic." Ministry of Health for disease prevention and control of Ganoderma lucidum, Deputy Secretary-hole said that in the past year, doctors, patients and the media take advantage of this common platform, in advocacy, prevention and treatment of diabetes knowledge universal and achieved marked results.
