Prevalence of diabetes in the Southern region of Mexico

Abstract

The worldwide prevalence of diabetes has increased from 4.7% to 8.5% in the adulthood population (1980-2019) (www.who.int/). According to the International Diabetes Federation in 2017, there were 451 million people (aged 18 to 99 years old) who suffered from diabetes worldwide and it is expected to have increased significantly to 693 million by 2045.1 Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease of variable etiology and with social, behavioral, environmental and genetic risk factors, which make the disease study more complex. The most common form of diabetes is type 2 diabetes (T2D) and it is presented in 90–95% of all adult patients with diabetes2. That phenomenon occurs because obesity has been getting more and more common among youngster populations worldwide. In fact, obesity is the main risk factor for T2D, 85% and 80% of children and adults with T2D, respectively, have been individuals who were overweight or suffered from obesity before they presented T2D diagnosis.5,6