Diabetes is a metabolic disease which is characterized by a rise in blood sugar level.
As it gets chronic it causes serious damage to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that about 422 million people worldwide have diabetes and adds that in the past 3 decades the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has risen dramatically in countries of all income levels.
As per the WHO report, between 2000 and 2019, there was a 3% increase in diabetes mortality rates by age and in 2019 alone an estimated 2 million deaths were caused due to diabetes.
