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So many millions of people in China than any health problem becomes enormous size there. However, in the case of diabetes, experts now dare to speak of an epidemic. A major survey conducted in the Asian giant warns that 92 million adults have diabetes in this country and another 150 suffering ‘prediabetes’, a cardiovascular condition that increases the risk of cardiac complications. A team led by Jiang He, the Chinese group for the study of diabetes, has undertaken a herculean effort to evaluate more than 46,000 people between 2007 and 2008 and blood tests in the morning to try to update estimates what is the true extent of diabetes in China. Participants were more than 20 years and came from 14 different Chinese provinces. In total, according to the presence of glucose in the blood, the researchers calculated that the rate of diabetes in China is 9.7% of the total population, ie around 92.4 million adults (about 50 million men and 42 women). But they also warn other 142 million people (15.5% of citizens) would be grouped in the so-called pre-diabetes (when fasting glucose levels rise above normal, but never to be considered diabetes ), a metabolic disorder that increases the risk of cardiovascular complications. Read the rest of this entry »