International, regional and local health organizations on 14 November each year mark World Diabetes Awareness Day, which affects millions of people around the world and increases the number of people infected with it every day.
According to a World Health Organization report in 2016, the number of people with diabetes increased from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014.
The global prevalence of diabetes in adults over the age of 18 increased from 4.7 percent in 1980 to 8.5 percent in 2014, according to the World Health Organization.
The prevalence of diabetes was higher in middle- and low-income countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) expects diabetes to become the seventh leading cause of death in 2030.
Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes and amputations, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report that can be avoided by a healthy diet.
The organization recommends regular physical activity, maintaining normal body weight, and avoiding tobacco use, in order to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin, or when the body can not effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulates the level of sugar in the blood.
The selection of the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization on the 14th of November to raise awareness of diabetes coincides with the birth of Frederick Banting, who co-founded Charles Best in the discovery of insulin in 1922.
