🔸The deputy of the Center for the Management of Non-communicable Diseases of the Ministry of Health of Iran announced that about 20 million people of the country's population over the age of 25 suffer from diabetes or pre-diabetes, and also cases of type 2 diabetes among children and teenagers are increasing.
Alireza Mahdawi told ISNA news agency on Saturday, November 14, that according to the results of the latest national survey of risk factors for non-communicable diseases, about seven to eight million Iranians over the age of 25 suffer from diabetes, and more than 13 million people are in the pre-diabetic stage.
🔸 He considered obesity, lack of physical activity and increased use of screens as the main causes of the increase in type 2 diabetes at a young age and said that about a quarter of diabetes patients in Iran are not aware of their disease.
This source in the Ministry of Health also pointed to the problems of access to medicines, the rising cost of medicines and the difficulty in controlling blood sugar levels and said that the incidence of diabetes in the districts of Yazd, Gilan and Mazandaran is higher than in many other areas of the country. According to him, although about 75% of patients are aware of their disease, less than half of the patients achieved optimal blood sugar control in national surveys.