Epidemic obesity and type 2 diabetes in Asia

The proportions of people with type 2 diabetes and obesity have increased throughout Asia, and the rate of increase shows no sign of slowing. People in Asia tend to develop diabetes with a lesser degree of obesity at younger ages, suffer longer with complications of diabetes, and die sooner than peo...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 368; no. 9548; pp. 1681 - 1688
Main Authors Yoon, Kun-Ho, Lee, Jin-Hee, Kim, Ji-Won, Cho, Jae Hyoung, Choi, Yoon-Hee, Ko, Seung-Hyun, Zimmet, Paul, Son, Ho-Young
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Elsevier Ltd 11.11.2006
Lancet
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
Asia - epidemiology
Biological and medical sciences
Changes
Child
Children & youth
Chronic illnesses
Developing countries
Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - complications
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - economics
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - epidemiology
Disease
Female
General aspects
Humans
LDCs
Male
Medical sciences
Metabolic diseases
Middle Aged
Minority & ethnic groups
Miscellaneous
Mortality
Obesity
Obesity - complications
Obesity - epidemiology
Population
Prevalence
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Sex Distribution
Asia
Endocrinopathy
Type 2 diabetes
Epidemic
Medicine
Obesity
Nutrition disorder
Metabolic diseases
Epidemiology
Nutritional status
Public health
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Summary:The proportions of people with type 2 diabetes and obesity have increased throughout Asia, and the rate of increase shows no sign of slowing. People in Asia tend to develop diabetes with a lesser degree of obesity at younger ages, suffer longer with complications of diabetes, and die sooner than people in other regions. Childhood obesity has increased substantially and the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has now reached epidemic levels in Asia. The health consequences of this epidemic threaten to overwhelm health-care systems in the region. Urgent action is needed, and advocacy for lifestyle changes is the first step. Countries should review and implement interventions, and take a comprehensive and integrated public-health approach. At the level of primary prevention, such programmes can be linked to other non-communicable disease prevention programmes that target lifestyle-related issues. The cost of inaction is clear and unacceptable.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69703-1