Healthbox, a health oriented group has disclosed that if left unchecked, about 500 million people in the world will be living with diabetes in 2023.
The organisation made the disclosure at a ‘Workplace and Wellness Conference’ organised recently to create awareness on how to integrate the components of work, lifestyle and health.
A health activist and Chief Executive Officer of Healthbox, Adaobi Ogudo, in her speech, explained that the edition of the event which focused on diabetes and the healthy condition of the heart was timely “in a society like ours where people contact ill health as a result of poor health care.”
She said over 370 million persons in the world have diabetes and by the year 2023, if nothing was done to salvage the situation, the number would increase to about 500 million.
“People with diabetes who have already suffered one form of heart attack or the other run an even greater risk of having a second one, thus, heart attack in people with diabetes are more serious and likely to result in death,” she noted.
Ogudo stressed that bad and uncontrolled eating habits in work places contributed to the many ill health suffered by people today, especially those who worked for longer hours in cooperate offices, adding that, “Owing to the seriousness of the issue, this conference, first of its kind by Healthbox, is scheduled to hold twice a year in Lagos and Abuja to create awareness and proffer solution on how to exterminate these problems.”
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