Alireza Mehdavi, deputy director of the Center for the Management of Non-Communicable Diseases at the Ministry of Health, said that the population suffering from diabetes and pre-diabetes in Iran reaches about 20 million people.
This official at the Ministry of Health continued: "Child obesity, inactivity and increased screen time are effective factors in the increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes in children and teenagers."
He added: "In the past, type 2 diabetes was known as adult-onset diabetes and was said to appear after the age of 40. At the same time, we are witnessing a decrease in the age of type 2 diabetes; In a way that you see cases of this disease among teenagers as well."