Experts estimate the number of people with diabetes in Russia at 12 million.
Moreover, about half of them do not know about their diagnosis.
This is what he said at a press conference of the director of the Diabetes Institute of the National Center for Medical Research and Endocrinology. Academician Dedov Marina Shastkova. According to her, type 2 diabetes is mainly caused by lifestyle, obesity, poor diet and lack of physical activity. Also, such patients often have a genetic predisposition, the expert added.