Akwesasne and Cornwall recognize World Diabetes Day

 

Nancy Chaussi

Akwesasne’s Community Health Program got together with Cornwall’s branch of the Canadian Diabetes Association to officially recognize World Diabetes Day last Friday.

The two organizations hosted a pubic informational event at the Cornwall Island Recreation Centre and guests were invited to take advantage of the services offered whether they were diabetic or not.

While various speakers took turns at the microphone speaking on a number of diabetes-related topics, visitors could thumb through information, eat a free, healthy meal, and then have their feet looked over by diabetes professionals. The participants then received a free massage.

The theme of the event was keeping a healthy heart for diabetes health.

“This event was for anybody,” said Sweet Jacobs, of Mohawk Council of Akwesasne’s Community Health Program.

Many of those who attended the event set up an area at one of the tables and took in the information provided by speakers all day long.

According to the World Diabetes Organization:

-Diabetes affects 246 million people worldwide and is expected to affect some 380 million by 2025.

-Each year another 7 million people develop diabetes.

-Each year, 3.8 million deaths are linked directly to diabetes-related causes including cardiovascular disease made worse by diabetes-related lipid disorders and hypertension.

-Every 10 seconds a person dies from diabetes-related causes.

-Every 10 seconds two people develop diabetes.

-In many countries in Asia, the Middle East, Oceania and the Caribbean, diabetes affects 12 to 20% of the adult population.

-Seven of the 10 countries with the highest number of people living with diabetes are in the developing world.

-In 2025, 80% of all diabetes cases will be in low and middle-income countries.

-Just under half of all people with diabetes are aged between 40 and 59. More than 70% of them live in developing countries.

-India has the largest diabetes population in the world with an estimated 41 million people, amounting to 6% of the adult population.

-In China, where 4.3% of the population is affected by diabetes, the number of people with this condition is expected to exceed 50 million within the next 20 years.

Community Health Staff.

-Type 1 diabetes, which predominately affects youth, is rising alarmingly worldwide, at a rate of 3% per year.

-Some 70,000 children aged 14 and under develop type 1 diabetes annually.

-An increasing number of children are developing type 2 diabetes, in both developed and developing nations.

-Type 2 diabetes has been reported in children as young as eight.

-Reports reveal the existence of type 2 diabetes in child populations previously thought not to be at risk.

-In Japan, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes amongst junior high school children has doubled from 7.3 per 100,000 in 1976-80 to 13.9 per 100,000 in 1991-95, with type 2 diabetes now outnumbering type 1 diabetes in that country.

 

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