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Is the incidence of Diabetes Mellitus increasing, decreasing or staying the same

Is the incidence of Diabetes Mellitus increasing, decreasing or staying the same?
Is it increasing or decreasing in the world? Is it increasing or decreasing in developed countries?
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type 2 increasing in leaps in bounds all over the world, and in younger and younger people. Type 1 increasing too, but likely not as dramatic an increase, but proportionate to the growth of the general population.
2 :
The incidence is increasing, but the criteria for the diagnosis is also being lowered. Even corrected for the diagnosis, I believe the incidence is still increasing. Diabetes.org and the CDC will probably have good info on this.
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Diabetes incidence is increasing globally, and that is based on reliable epidemiological studies. One reason is because diabetes, type 2 diabetes in particular, is very difficult to detect at the onset due to lack of signs and symptoms. Majority of patients are diagnosed with diabetes when the disease has already fully progressed because this is the only time when signs and symptoms arise. Also, many people observe poor lifestyle (such as lack of exercise and a poor diet) which is one major factor contributing to the increasing incidence of diabetes around the world.
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Diabetes Mellitus will continue to increase in the world over. India will rank No.1 position with regard to the total number of diabetic patients.
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Over eating and obesity is increasing and so diabetes also.
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Diabetes mellitus is increasing all over the world,type 2 more as the cause of it is generally idiopathic and more so in the developed countries.one cause for this is thought the lack of nutritional stress in the lives of most people due to the change in lifestyle. the incidence is also higher nowadays as the longetivity is increased and DM is incurable(only palliative medicine is available). a particular group of factors in the body,proteins and transcription factors(ppr gamma) are thought to be responsible for managing nutritional stress in the organisms. this in,our case has been rendered redundant too fast and has consequentially created havoc in the body as the body is not evolutionarily ready to accept the sudden change of lifestyle. this is considered as one of the major causes for the widespread dying out of the native red indians in US,one of the major causes has been found to be DM. But in terms of cause the reasosns cannot be narrowed thus.DM is precipitated by many factors one of which maybe as stated above,

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