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Shanghai facing big diabetes problem
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ONE third of Shanghai’s residents over 35 are diabetics or on their way to developing diabetes, which has become a serious public health issue, the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention said ahead of the World Diabetes Day today.
The incidence of diabetes among local adults over 35 years old has doubled from 2002 to 17.65 percent now. It means that about 2 million diabetes patients are living in the city, reflecting a strong challenge for health authorities to manage and control the disease.
Another challenge confronting the authorities is that 16.51 percent of residents over 35 are prediabetes, which means their glucose level is higher than healthy people but they are not yet suffering from diabetes. However they are likely to develop diabetes if they do not manage to control it.
To combat the disease, the city government included diabetes prevention and control in its community-based chronic disease management program for long-term supervision and intervention. Since 2004, all neighborhood health centers have started to educate the people on diabetes, screen those at risk and put in place a patient management system.
“A new round of diabetes prevention and control system by 2017 will screen 1 million residents with risky factors, while leading hospitals will train community doctors on proper diabetes management,” said Dr Jia Weiping, president of Shanghai No. 6 People’s Hospital and chief of the diabetes program.
By end of 2016, the program is slated to have screened over 300,000 people with risky factors. So far 630,000 patients have been taught how to manage diabetes.
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