Obesity Responsible for Surge in Diabetes Related Deaths

Mon, 12 Sep 2011
Obesity is the reason why diabetes has increased five fold in Scottish women aged less than 50.

Those who are overweight are at a higher risk of developing diabetes.

A surge in obesity has seen deaths from diabetes increase in women aged under 50, medical researchers disclosed yesterday.

Since 1990 mortality rate figures from diabetes have gone up by five times in women aged under 50. Within the same age group it nearly doubled for men.

It is scary that "relatively young" people are dying "deaths amenable to healthcare" which are deaths which would not occur with timely and effective care.

Scotland hags witnessed the number of diabetic cases go up significantly, with 4.6% of the population considered to presently be diabetics, up from just 2% ten years ago.

The condition is considered to be the leading cause or a contributory factor to 4,000 plus annual deaths a year in Scotland.

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers discovered that the death rate from diabetes in women aged under 50 went up from 0.22 deaths per 100,000 in 1990 in 1990 to 1.02 in 2009. Among men, the rate went up from 0.75 in 1990 to 1.38 in 2009.

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