What is the percentage of canadians that are overweight & obese?
68% of Canadian adults
what are the 5 major chronic diseases obesity can lead to?
- type 2 diabetes
- Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)
- Hypertension
- Various cancers
- Osteoarthritis
what are 5 other co- morbidities that diabetes can lead to?
- Respiratory Difficulties
- Chronic Musculoskeletal
- Depression
- Infertility
- Covid-19
what is the economic cost for an obese population ?
30 Billion per year
what is the direct and indirect cost of obesity ?
Direct cost of excess medical care
Indirect cost with loss of productivity caused by excess disability and mortality
What percentage of death does obesity have amongst canadians?
10 %
what is the amount and percentage of canadians with diagnosed diabetes?
3.9 Million and 10%
what is the amount and percentage of canadians with pre diabetes?
12 Million and 30%
what is diabetes ranking in terms of mortality in the canadian population ?
7th for mortality
what is the definition of diabetes by the Canadian Diabetes Association?
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by the presence of hyperglycemia due to defective insulin, secretion, insulin action or both. Chronic hyperglycemia of diabetes is associated with significant long term damage, dysfunction & failure of various organs-especially the kidneys,eyes, nerves, heart & blood vessels
what is type 1 diabetes?
absolute deficiency of insulin secretion due to autoimmune destruction of beta cells of the pancreas
what are 2 other names for type 1 diabetes
- Insulin dependent diabetes
- juvenile onset diabetes
what is type 2 diabetes?
a combination of insulin secretion & relative insulin commonly obese patients in the abdominal region
what are two major difference between type 2 and type 1 diabetes ?
- type 2 diabetes has no autoimmune destruction of beta cells like type 1
- type 2 diabetes accounts for 90-95% of diabetes
what are the 3 clinical test for diabetes?
- Fasting for at least 8hrs (impaired fasting glycemia)
- Oral Glucose Test with 75 g of glucose (impaired glucose tolerance)
- A1C
what is insulin Resistance?
under hyperinsulinemic euglycemic (??) conditions glucose uptake is in the lowest quartile for non diabetics under investigation ?? (clarify with prof)
what is MetS?
metabolic syndrome is the clustering of chronic disease risk factors with obesity HDL chlo, high bp and high glucose levels
what is the high waist circumfrence in men and women
- men >102
- women > 88
