Risk factors contributing to type 2 diabetes and recent advances in the treatment and prevention.

ABSTRACT: Type 2 diabetes is a serious and common chronic disease resulting from a complex inheritance-environment interaction along with other risk factors such as obesity and sedentary lifestyle. Type 2 diabetes and its complications constitute a major worldwide public health problem, affecting almost all populations in both developed and developing countries with high rates of diabetes-related morbidity and mortality. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has been increasing exponentially, and a high prevalence rate has been observed in developing countries and in populations undergoing "westernization" or modernization. Multiple risk factors of diabetes, delayed diagnosis until micro- and macro-vascular complications arise, life-threatening complications, failure of the current therapies, and financ

SUBMITTER: Wu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4166864 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature