Hidden risks: why 6 million Russians don't know about their diabetes.
According to official Rostat data, 6 million 111 thousand diabetics are registered in Russia. But in reality there are many more people with this disease.
"In conducting epidemiological studies, we understand that this figure is not conclusive. About the same number of people do not know about their disease. We can say that there are about 12 million people with diabetes in the country," says academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Marina Shestkova.
More than 90% of them have type 2 diabetes. The disease develops against a background of excess weight, a high-calorie diet, low physical activity and a hereditary predisposition. The "resurgence" of the disease is of particular concern. According to endocrinologist Lyudmila Ibarjimova, over the past 15 years, the number of patients in the young reproductive age group of 18-39 has increased by 90%.