The fight against diabetes in Southeast Asia and Australia

More than 1.3 billion people will have diabetes in 2050, according to new models published in the scientific journal The Lancet, Friday, June 23. In just over thirty years, the number of diabetes cases in the world has quadrupled, according to theWorld Health Organization (WHO). One in 14 people in Southeast Asia already had this disease before the health crisis and the situation in the region will get even worse.

In Malaysia, 19% of the population between the ages of 20 and 79 suffer from this pathology. In question, there is in particular the diet of the population with the consumption of processed and unhealthy food. Some Southeast Asian governments are relying on taxes on sugary products to reduce their consumption.

In Australia, the number of people with diabetes has tripled in thirty years. A scourge that affected 1.3 million people in 2019. Deakin University researchers who recently published their work attribute this increase, at least in part, to obesity as well as overweight that affect the Australian population. .