Diabetes is rising out of control: report

DIABETES and obesity are rising out of control in Australia and the rest of the world, new data suggests.

The global burden will surge from 382 million people to 592 million people by 2035, according to an International Diabetes Federation atlas released on Thursday.

Australia is in line with the world diabetes average of one in 10 people, but the numbers are much higher among indigenous people.

"It just keep growing," says Associate Professor Jonathan Shaw of Australia's Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.

"In Australia we are starting to see much younger people develop type 2 diabetes, particularly in the indigenous community and among immigrants of Indian and Chinese origin," Prof Shaw said.

"They will still be relatively young when they start suffering complications like kidney failure, blindness and stroke.

"It is going to become a greater burden for them and for society."

The Western Pacific, which includes Australia, China and Japan, has 138 million people with diabetes, the highest number of people with the disease in the world, according to the atlas released to mark World Diabetes Day.

China with 98 million, India with 65 million and the US with 24 million have the highest numbers of people with the disease.

"It is an emergency in slow motion," says Peter Soelberg, the managing director of Novo Nordisk Australasia, a sponsor of World Diabetes Day.

"This day should act as a wake-up call."

People need to eat fewer kilojoules and stay physically active, Prof Shaw says.

"We need to look at regulation in the same way as we have regulations for alcohol and tobacco."

Work environments that encourage people to stand up regularly are also considered essential.

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