Results of scanning for diabetes, obesity and blood pressure: a sample from manisa in western turkey

Abstract

In WHO rankings, diabetes has been recognized as being in the group of rapidly increasing epidemiological diseases [1]. It was found that there were 400 million adult diabetics in the world in 2015, and this number is predicted to rise to over 640 million by 2040. Seventy-five percent of diabetics in the world live in medium and low income countries, and five million people in the world die of diabetes each year. The cost of medical care for diabetic individuals is more than 670 billion dollars annually according to the IDF [2]. According to the results of a 2010 study by Diabetes Epidemiology in Turkey (TURDEP II), the prevalence of diabetes is 13.7%, the prevalence of obesity is 32%, and the prevalence of hypertension is 30% [3].