Today, April 15, various events are taking place in many countries around the world on the occasion of the World Diabetes Day, UNN reports.
The event was launched in honor of the girl Jakia Monique Furtick, who was diagnosed with the disease as a child. Due to complications caused by the disease, the girl died at the age of 13.
Type I diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that affects the human body's ability to process glucose from food to produce energy. Type I diabetes is most often detected at an early age, while type II diabetes is a fully acquired disease.
The disease diabetes mellitus develops when the immune system attacks the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, a hormone that helps convert glucose into energy needed by the body's cells. Therefore, people with type I diabetes need daily insulin injections for life.
This type of diabetes is believed to be the result of an autoimmune reaction where the body attacks itself by mistake. This process can take months or years before any sensations appear.
People living with type I diabetes need constant insulin therapy and must carefully monitor their blood sugar levels to avoid complications such as blindness, kidney failure, and vascular damage. The most important thing is to prevent hypoglycemia, a dangerously low blood sugar level that is the most common cause of death in people with diabetes.
According to medical data, about 5-10% of people in the world with diabetes have type I. It usually develops in children and adolescents, but it can also affect adults.
More than one million children and adolescents worldwide have been diagnosed with type I diabetes.
In Ukraine, on the eve of the full-scale Russian invasion, there were about 10,000 minors with type I diabetes.
According to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, last year more than half a million people in Ukraine were diagnosed with type I and type II diabetes.