November is Diabetes Month and South African citizens are facing a diabetes crisis.
The number of South Africans developing the silent killer disease is increasing daily. According to a study by Statistics South Africa, diabetes is the second leading cause of deaths in South Africa overall after Tuberculosis.
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CEO of the Centre for Diabetes, Dr Grant Newton elaborates: “There is a commonly used number which is about 4.3 million living with diabetes in South Africa. But we know that number unfortunately, statistically is not evident. We know that the number far exceeds that. The number that people are effectively talking about is about 10% of the population at the very least and probably no less than 12%.
There is a misnomer in that number because we must remember that diabetes stays in our system for 12 years asymptomatically. In other words it doesn’t present in every person living with diabetes until it comes out symptomatically sometimes 12 years later.”
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