Why Diabetes Is So Terrible? (Ⅰ)

According to the statistics, there are more than 150 million diabetes patient in the world and in China there are more than 30 million in China which is next only to India. Besides, there are a equal number amount people are on the borderline of diabetes. Many people who have lower sugar tolerance can turn to diabetes at any time. What’s worse, as estimate, the population of diabetes patients in the whole can be double in ten years. There is another main viewpoint which is from the World Diabetes Day, that is ‘Diabetes will make your kidney pay the price’. I think here the price does not only mean the health kidney, but also refers to the economic loss.
Nearly 95% diabetes are type 2 diabetes and 40% to 50% type 2 diabetes can be found microalbumin in urine test after being diagnosed, and among them, 20% to 40% patients can progress to obvious diabetic nephropathy. For example, in China, end stage diabetes nephropathy patients occupy 10% among the patients who are taking dialysis. In Taiwan, the number is 26%. What’s worse, patients who are having diabetic nephropathy also have a high risk of cardiovascular disease, or even death. As a result, their living quality also decreases too much.
Based on the numbers, diabetes patients who are complicated with kidney disease have to pay 13 times money on treating the disease than others who do not have complications. Such financial pressure is too depressing. Once the disease gets to uremia stage, the cost is also too much higher. Even spending such high medicine expense, their living quality is still much lower than others.