An alarming 27 per cent of Bahrainis have developed type 2 or
adult-onset diabetes, mainly caused by poor diet and overeating, according to a health ministry official.
Rapid social and economic change are transforming China, where more than one-fifth of the adult population is overweight and the country is seeing large increases in such weight-related problems as hypertension, stroke and
adult-onset diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is referred to as either non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus or
adult-onset diabetes, Type 2 diabetes accounts for about 90 percent to 95 percent of all diagnosad cam of diabetes.
Adult-onset diabetes is fast becoming an epidemic and is largely associated with poor diet and nutrition and other lifestyle issues.
A relatively simple screening tool helps determine whether patients who present with
adult-onset diabetes have type 2 disease or latent autoimmune diabetes, according to Dr.
Results from the 2002 physical examination support
adult-onset diabetes as the most important health problem seen in the Air Force Health Study.
Type 2 diabetes - also referred to as
adult-onset diabetes - was once only seen among adults.
Doctors report increasing numbers of children with type 2 diabetes, once called
adult-onset diabetes.
A 56-year-old Hispanic-black man with a history of
adult-onset diabetes mellitus was found unresponsive in his home.
Type II diabetes mellitus is also known as
adult-onset diabetes or non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
Not coincidentally, Mexico has one of the highest rates of
adult-onset diabetes in the world.
During 10 years of follow-up, women who had about half a drink to two drinks a day were 58 percent less likely than nondrinkers to develop type 2 diabetes, also called
adult-onset diabetes.
The magazine Taste for Life suggests this metabolic roller coaster may increase the risk for
adult-onset diabetes.
Mostly poor black kids, they marched through his office suffering from high cholesterol, high blood pressure, enlarged hearts, and
adult-onset diabetes that promised to fill their future with kidney failure, amputations, blindness, and early heart attacks and strokes.
The findings predict an epidemic of
adult-onset diabetes will face the health service in the not-too-distant future.
