Prevention and treatment of diabetes mellitus.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Prevention and treatment of diabetes mellitus [Abstract] an overview of the years reported in the risk factors related to impaired glucose tolerance prevention and treatment of the situation. [Keywords:] diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance-based therapies The past 30 years, as China’s economic development, improving people’s living standards and lifestyle changes, a number of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease and other significant increase in the prevalence, such as the prevalence rate of diabetes in China 0.67% from 1980 to 1996, rose to 3.21%, an increase of nearly 5-fold [1], prevalence of hypertension in 1980 survey 7.73% in 1991, increased to 9.14%, an increase of 25% [2], Although the average Chinese blood lipid levels lower than the Western countries, but also significant increase since the 80’s, according to Fu Wai Hospital, ‘Chinese population trends in cardiovascular disease prevention strategies and research in the 21st century’, populations in different regions of China over the past 20 years, survey data The analysis and comparison, men with hypercholesterolemia, the prevalence increased from 7% to 33%; women from 9% to 32%, while coronary heart disease mortality rates in China have gradually increased, according to the Ministry of Health 1988-1996 death statistics, and atherosclerosis-related diseases mortality rate of 35% of the total mortality rate -40%, which is China’s first 1 cause of death. Such as 700,000 adult population in Beijing from January 1984 to December 1993 test results, acute coronary heart disease mortality rate as high as 63.7% [3]. Diabetic cardiovascular disease is the main reason of death, about 80% of diabetics die of atherosclerotic cardiovascular complications, Peking University First Hospital, 80 years 52.5% of hospital statistics of direct cause of death was diabetes, cardiovascular complications, [4]. Therefore actively prevent the occurrence of