In commending George Debono when it come to his piece about “both nationwide scourges” last Saturday and, especially, appreciating his advertising of healthier diet plans and lifestyle, might I factor out that the regional prevalence price when it come to kind II diabetes is nowhere near to the figure he quotes.
In October 2014, I possessed composed to this newspaper pointing out that the prevalence of diabetes in Malta has actually been located to be 7.7 each penny in a populace of over-15s by Antoine Schranz’s epidemiological study published in Diabetes study and health care method in 1989. That would certainly be regarding 6.2 each penny standardised to the entire Maltese population.
The incidence and prevalence of diabetes in Malta have actually additionally been published as section of my supplement to the electronic good health indicator data report when it come to the European Commission. This is still offered in complete at ec.europa.eu.
Again, in that report the prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Malta is mentioned at 6.25 each cent, standardised to a European Union standard populace (EU15).
For my PhD studies, I duplicated this study based about an global standard study database extracted from the electronic patient records of regarding 10,000 patients (annual average) registered along with Maltese family doctors. The most up to date estimate when it come to the populace prevalence of diabetes mellitus (kind I and kind II together, over a interval of observation of 5 decades from 2001 to 2005) was after that 5.9 each penny (standardised to the Maltese populace in 2002), along with an annual incidence of 0.5 each penny (non-standardised).
These figures are consistent, are fairly near to those published by Schranz in 1989 and I have actually been published in the global clinical diary Family method in 2012.
The ideal estimates when it come to the prevalence of diabetes in Malta routinely imply a variety of in between 6 each penny and 6.25 each cent. They are now 10 decades aged and might necessity updating.
