More than six million Russians suffer from diabetes mellitus of the first and second types

More than six million Russians suffer from diabetes mellitus of the first and second types.

Type 2 diabetes is often caused by problems of excess weight and obesity, so the routing of citizens from risk groups to receive timely treatment is being actively improved.

MOSCOW, October 6 - RIA Novosti. More than six million Russians suffer from diabetes mellitus of the first and second types, the press service of the Academician Dedov National Medical Research Center for Endocrinology of the Russian Ministry of Health told RIA Novosti.

"According to clinical and epidemiological monitoring of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation, Federal State Budgetary Institution "National Medical Research Center of Endocrinology named after Academician I.I. Dedov" of the Russian Ministry of Health, more than 6 million 116 thousand adults are registered in the Russian Federation, of which 348 thousand are with type 1 diabetes mellitus, and 5 million 729 thousand people are with type 2 diabetes mellitus," the report says.

They clarified that type 2 diabetes is often caused by problems of excess weight and obesity.

“Currently, the routing of citizens from risk groups - those with overweight, obesity - from primary care doctors to receive timely treatment is being actively improved,” the press service concluded.