{"id":13530,"date":"2011-01-13T06:47:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=13530"},"modified":"2015-12-30T03:15:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T08:15:41","slug":"diabetes-epidemic-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=13530","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes Epidemic in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/13\/world\/middleeast\/13iht-M13CDIABET.html?_r=2&amp;hpw\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times reported<\/a> on the rapidly growing diabetes epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa and the financial burden of health care costs to the region\u2019s governments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Six countries in the region are among the top 10 globally with the highest prevalence of diabetes. They include the United Arab Emirates, showing the second-highest rate in the world \u2014 behind only the tiny Pacific island state of Nauru \u2014 followed by Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The International Diabetes Foundation estimates that 26.6 million adults in the Middle East and North Africa currently have diabetes, accounting for 9.3 percent of the world\u2019s adults with the disease. The region spends $5.5 billion annually on diabetes, accounting for 14 percent of its total health care expenditure. In Qatar, expenditure is as high as $2,960 per person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The figures are already worrying, but the foundation predicts worse to come. It says that over the next 20 years the number of people with diabetes in the region will almost double, reaching 51.7 million by 2030.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The disease greatly increases the risk of serious, costly illnesses and conditions, according to a briefing book prepared by the foundation for the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reported on the rapidly growing diabetes epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa and the financial burden of health care costs to the region\u2019s governments.<br \/>\nSix countries in the region are among the top 10 globally with the highest prevalence of diabetes. They include the United Arab Emirates, showing the second-highest rate in the world \u2014 behind only the tiny Pacific island state of Nauru \u2014 followed by Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":29406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1456,1541],"tags":[325,1010],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diabetes Epidemic in the Middle East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Six countries in the region are among the top 10 globally with the highest prevalence of diabetes.  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