The National Cheng Kung University Medical Center in Taiwan, China stated on the 29th that the death rate of diabetics in Taiwan has continued to rise, ranking first in Asia; and the "poor blood sugar control" of Chinese people is considered to be closely related to the rising death rate.
Even more alarming, new screening and diagnostic studies show that children and teens are six times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than type 1 diabetes.
The incidence of type 2 diabetes is on the rise among girls aged 10 to 12 and boys aged 13 to 15.
The "younger" type 2 diabetes in Taiwan is also closely related to factors such as improper diet, inactivity, and obesity in children and adolescents.
Since the 1976 of the Republic of China, diabetes has been ranked the fifth among the top ten causes of death in the country; in 1991 and 1992, it even advanced to the fourth place.
Last year, the number of deaths from diabetes increased by 1,195 people compared to the previous year, and the death rate per 100,000 population jumped by 13.05% in one year.
Zhang Zhiren, director of the Diabetes Health Promotion Organization of Chengda Hospital, pointed out that the American Diabetes Association has three standard guidelines for diabetes treatment: glycosylated hemoglobin level, blood pressure level, and total cholesterol level; It turned out that only 1.3% of the 5,000 diabetics met these three criteria.
Another thing worthy of the attention of Chinese people is that type 2 diabetes has become the mainstream of children and adolescents in Taiwan; this is quite different from the traditional perception that type 2 is regarded as "adult type".
Zhang Zhiren said that in the treatment of diabetes, in addition to oral medication and insulin injection, non-drug treatment is also very important, but it is easy to be ignored; this includes weight loss, moderate exercise, correct eating habits and quitting smoking and alcohol, and reducing cholesterol intake etc.
Xu Zhiren said that many studies have confirmed that if you can reduce your current body weight by 5% to 15%, you can improve high blood pressure, diabetes and dyslipidemia.
But it should be noted that people with diabetes should not exercise on an empty stomach, especially after taking insulin injections or oral hypoglycemic drugs, and should avoid hypoglycemia episodes.
Comment
Chinese medicine practitioners in Taiwan may be asleep. These type 2 diabetes are very curable. I tell readers how quickly I have a patient named R, who weighs more than 450 pounds. His blood sugar is 350. He uses 40 per day. One unit of insulin to control blood sugar, the result is still 350 after using it, the next day after taking my traditional Chinese medicine, the blood sugar is 120, he thought there was something wrong with his instrument, so he borrowed an instrument from the neighbor next door to test again, It was still 120, he was startled, Chinese medicine is so good, I told him that there are many Chinese medicine in Taiwan that can treat you, not surprising, he had to look at me stupidly, he must admire the Chinese medicine in Taiwan very much Yes, I often say this to foreigners, I always hope they can look at Taiwan differently, because the national flag of the Republic of China is crossed at the gate of my clinic all year round, and the American flag is naturally on the other side, and my representative office in the United States also If I dare not do this, I am a common man, so what does politics have to do with me?
