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Sugar rush 糖糖糖Diabetes糖尿病Sugar rush糖糖糖Jun 27th 2011, 13:19 by The Economist onlineThe progress of a disease over thirty years一种疾病三十年来的进展状况THE number of adults with diabetes more than doubled between 1980 and 2008, according to a new study led by Professor MajidEzzati of Imperial College London and GoodarzDanaei at Harvard University and published in the Lancet. This jump is not quite as horrific as the numbers might initially suggest, because ageing helped push up rates. But a good 30% of the increase was caused by higher prevalence of diabetes across age groups. Obesity seems to be a main culprit; the authors found a high correlation between rising rates of diabetes and a rise in body mass index. The global leap masks considerable variation between the sexes and among regions. Across the world the rate of diabetes rose by 18% for men and by 23% for women, to 9.8% and 9.2% respectively. In some countries the gap between the sexes was more dramatic. In Pakistan, for example, rates jumped by 46% for men and by 102% for women. The highest incidence of all is found in the Marshall Islands, where more than a quarter of all adults had diabetes in 2008. America has lived up to its hefty reputation. Women’s rate of diabetes jumped 79%, something that has contributed to a decline in life expectancy among some groups. And once again, French women are the envy of the world. Rates there fell by 11.2%.根据伦敦大学帝国理工学院的MajidEzzati教授和哈佛大学的GoodarzDanaei领导的一项新研究（研究结果发布在《柳叶刀》上），患糖尿病的成年人数量在1980-2008年期间增加了一倍多。这个猛增并不像数字表面看起来那样吓人，因为人口老龄化也促进了糖尿病比率的提升。但是足足有30%的增长是由跨年龄组中很高的糖尿病患病率引起的。肥胖似乎是一个主要元凶；作者发现了糖尿病的增长率和上升的身体质量指数(BMI)之间呈高度相关。全球的跳跃式增长掩盖了性别间和地区间相当大的差别。全球的糖尿病患病率——男性增加了18%，达到9.8%；女性增加了23%，达到9.2%。在某些国家，性别间的差异更为显著。例如，巴基斯坦男性患糖尿病的比率增长了46%，而女性增长了102%。所有国家中，患病率最高的地方是马绍尔群岛，2008年那里超过1/4的成年人患有糖尿病。美国人糖高名副其实。美国女性糖尿病的比率跳升79%，这某种程度上导致有些组的预期寿命的下降。法国女性再次成为世界艳羡的对象。那里的糖尿病比率下降了11.2%WOM912.gif(165.74 KB, 下载次数: 0)下载附件2011-6-29 03:42 上传