"Diabesity": The 21st Century Epidemic

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dc.contributor.authorSwangjit Sura-amornkulen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-22T09:11:16Z
dc.date.available2011-02-22T09:11:16Z
dc.date.created2010-01-08en_US
dc.date.issued2010-01-08en_US
dc.description.abstractAbstract "Diabesity": The 21st Century Epidemic Swangjit     Sura-amornkul     MD, FRCP(T), MSc (clinical investigation) Endocrinology unit, Department of Medicine, BMA Medical College and Vajira Hospital.           Diabetes and obesity are twin interrelated epidemics which threaten to engulf the world's healthcare systems over the next two decades. The prevalences of both are increasing at an alarming rate with up to 400 million people likely to develop diabetes, largely type 2, in the next 15 to 20 years unless action is taken. Indeed, much of this increase in diabetes prevalence is directly attributable to the epidemic of obesity.           Both diabetes and obesity are associated with significant mortality and morbidity from macrovascular disease such as heart attack, stroke and peripheral vascular disease. In addition, diabetes carries the extra burden from the specific microvascular complications of retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. The costs of these conditions, both personal and economic, are enormous. Vajira Med J 2008 ; 52 : 77 - 82en_US
dc.identifier.citationVajira Medical Journal; Vol. 52 No. 1 January - April 2008; 77-82en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/133162
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherVajira Medical Journalen_US
dc.rightsFaculty of Medicine, Vajira Hospital, University of Bangkok Metropolis, Bangkok, Thailanden_US
dc.source.urihttps://thailand.digitaljournals.org/index.php/VMJ/issue/archiveen_US
dc.source.urihttps://thailand.digitaljournals.org/index.php/VMJ/article/view/559en_US
dc.title"Diabesity": The 21st Century Epidemicen_US
dc.typeReview Articlesen_US
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