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Diabetes in Canada : national statistics and opportunities for improved surveillance, prevention, and control

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  • "Diabẗe au Canada"@en
  • "Diabète au Canada"@en

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  • "Diabetes is now being recognized as a public health problem of potentially enormous proportions. Over a million Canadians are currently living with diabetes, and age-standardized rates of diabetes among Aboriginal peoples are triple those found in the general population. Recent comparative national surveys show prevalence rates of diabetes to be on the increase; as the Canadian population ages and rates of obesity rise, this trend is expected to worsen. Diabetes is a major cause of heart disease, and a leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, and limb amputations. Diabetes is ranked as the seventh leading cause of death in Canada, and it accounted for approximately 25,000 potential years of life lost due to pre mature death in 1996. The actual number of deaths for which diabetes is a contributing cause is estimated to be five times as high as current figures indicate and will increase exponentially over the next 10 years if cur rent trends continue. In economic terms, the burden of diabetes to the Canadian population due to health care costs, disability, work loss, and pre mature death is estimated to be up to $9 billion annually. Effective prevention and control measures are urgently needed to: target modifiable risk factors for diabetes such as obesity and physical inactivity, improve the treatment and management of diabetes, delay or prevent debilitating complications. The recently established Diabetes Division at the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC), Health Canada, has compiled current national statistics on diabetes and its complications in order to provide health professionals, policy makers and the public with a clearer picture of the burden of illness of diabetes and expected future trends. The Diabetes Council of Canada (DCC), through its member organizations, has assisted LCDC by reviewing this first Diabetes in Canada report."

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  • "Diabetes in Canada : national statistics and opportunities for improved surveillance, prevention, and control"
  • "Diabetes in Canada : national statistics and opportunities for improved surveillance, prevention, and control"@en
  • "Diabetes in Canada : national statistics and opportunities for improved surveillance, prevention, and control= Le diabète au Canada : statisques nationales et possibilités d'accroître la surveillance, la prévention et la lutte"@en
  • "Diabetes in Canada"@en
  • "Diabetes in Canada national statistics and opportunities for improved surveillance, prevention, and control"@en

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