Health & Fitness
According to CDC’s National Diabetes Statistics Report, as of 2021 data, 38.4 million people in the United States have diabetes. That’s 11.6% of the total U.S population. With the 2024 International diabetes federation report stating that approx. 589 million people around the world between the age of 20–79 are living with diabetes. The number is estimated to rise up to 853 million by the year 2050. If you think that’s shocking, there are more than 250 million people worldwide who aren’t even aware of the fact that they have diabetes resulting in it becoming a leading cause of death contributing to over 3.4 millions deaths every year.
Type 2 diabetes isn’t just a health condition, it has become a global epidemic that’s reshaping the global healthcare system, and driving annual health expenditures to over one trillion U.S. dollars.
This Podcast explains what is type 2 diabetes, how it develops, how it is related to obesity, Its difference from Type 1 Diabetes, Tips to maintain blood sugar levels and ways to manage it including diet, exercise and diabetes medicines such as Ozempic, Metformin and SGLT 2 inhibitor.