The Significance of Non-Drug Correction of Carbohydrate Metabolism Disorders

Abstract

Today, one of the main tasks of the healthcare system in many countries of the world is the development and implementation of measures for primary and secondary prevention of the onset and progression of socially significant diseases. In recent decades, the prevalence of carbohydrate metabolism disorders and DM in particular has acquired the character of a pandemic, both in developed and developing countries of the world [1]. According to the latest data, the number of patients with DM in the world over the past 10 years has more than doubled, and by the end of 2015 reached 415 million people [2]. According to the forecasts of the International Diabetes Federation, 642 million people will suffer from diabetes in 2040 [2]. Such a rapid increase in the incidence of diabetes was the reason for the adoption of UN Resolution 61/225 of December 20, 2006 on diabetes mellitus, and in 2011 - the UN Political Declaration addressed to national health systems, calling for the creation of multidisciplinary strategies in the field of prevention and control of non communicable diseases, where special attention is drawn to the problem of diabetes, as one of the leading causes of disability and mortality in the population.