Friday, February 03, 2012

Blog # 3:The most common non-communicable disease: Diabetes



According to Dr. Liu of Drexel’s University’s School of Public Health stated that Diabetes is the fourth or fifth leading cause of death in most countries and one of the most common non-communicable diseases globally. Dr. Liu’s study focused on founding the access to healthcare support and the prevention for diabetes after when they investigated a data from World Health Organization’s World Health Survey which is known for the first and largest global surveys using a standard method to determine the rates of conditions in countries worldwide. Liu’s study concluded that diabetes occurred widely from a low of 0.27 percent in Mali, to 15.54 percent in Mauritius. Researcher determined that age is a common factor in diabetes and life’s expectancy would reflect due to infectious diseases. In the end, Liu’s main step was to examine the risk factors for diabetes and finding effective ways to prevent the risk factors, including health behaviors, social and environmental factors.
I think everyone is aware that Diabetes is the one of the most common cause of death in countries and it is scary how it reduced life expectancy and enormous health costs for virtually every society. I believe that Dr. Liu’s research could benefit in lessening diabetes world-wide and healthcare needs to focus on this issue since it is increasing so rapidly in coming decades. Since the study results showed that risk of diabetes is associated with being overweight or obese so it mean if everyone exercise three times a day and work on their diet, Diabetes could be preventable. We need to focus on this common non communicable disease before it gets worse. 

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