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Article: Diabetes in Sri Lanka worse than in affluent countries
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- The Sunday Observer
- Article date:
- March 29, 2009
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Colombo, March 29 -- The following are the finds of a research conducted by the Diabetic Research Unit (DRU), Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo.
Diabetes mellitus is a multifactorial, chronic, progressive disease that arises when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin produced. Failure of insulin secretion, insulin or both leads to resection blood glucose level.
The disease is becoming a serious public health issue worse than that in the affluent countries; which is believed to be due to the ethnic susceptibility of the South Asians for type 2 diabetes mellitus, the rapidly aging population and socioeconomic ...