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Australian researchers warn of rising rates of diabetes in Asia

Australian researchers on Wednesday mesos sounded the alarm over rising rates of diabetes across South-East Asia, linked to an increasingly westernized lifestyle.
The study in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, found 11 percent of men and 12 percent of women had developed type two diabetes, but they did not know it so the disease went untreated.
This was on top of 4 percent of the population diagnosed with the disease triggered by poor diet and obesity, said professors Tuan Nguyen and Lesley Campbell of Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
"Dietary patterns have been changing dramatically in Vietnam in recent years, particularly in the cities as they become more westernized ... there are fast food outlets everywhere," Nguyen told Australian Associated Press (AAP).
"In Asia, diabetes is commonly found among well-off people, who can afford western-style fast food whereas in Australia it's commonly found in socio-economically disadvantaged groups."
Nguyen said the study findings added to a growing pool of research that suggested the disease was now "reaching epidemic proportions around wow gold the world."
In particular, he said, the findings in Vietnam echoed the results of a similar investigation in Thailand.
"Because of that, we feel very confident that we can extrapolate our findings to other parts of South-East Asia including Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia and Laos," Nguyen said.
"We also believe they are applicable to South-East Asian communities in Australia and around the world."
Type two diabetes is caused by a diet high in fat or sugar and a lack of exercise, and without treatment the condition leads to worsening health problems including heart disease, vision loss and lower limb amputation. Ultimately it leads to kidney failure.
About 3 percent of Australians have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes while about another 3 percent of the population were thought to be undiagnosed.
Australian health officials were tracking a third category -- 16 percent of Australians who have the earliest signs of the disease or "pre-diabetes."
"If you add it up, it makes buy wow gold about 23 percent of the (Australian) population at risk," Campbell told AAP.
"Who knows what we would find if we went and looked at this in the same way in the Third World. Unfortunately, we are watching, in just over a generation, a very rapid increase in diabetes in the Third World nations."
Campbell said a "sad story" was emerging in developing nations, where hunger and poverty co-existed with diseases from the affluent West, but without a western-standard health system.
In a bid to address this, the researchers have also developed a low-tech but accurate diagnostic tool that could be used to identify those likely to have undiagnosed diabetes.
The test requires only a patient's blood pressure to be checked and compared against their hip and waist measurements.
"In developing countries, it's critical that you have screening tests that can be used by workers with only basic training -- and that's cheap wow gold what this is," Campbell said.

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