An Analysis of the Prevention of Diabetes Type 2 Among People in UK and the City of Bradford

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An Analysis of Urban Health Issue

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AN ANALYSIS OF THE PREVENTIION OF DIABETES TYPE 2 AMONG PEOPLE IN
UNITED KINGDOM AND THE CITY OF BRADFORD
In today’s world, the urbanization has become a worldwide trend and it is having a very
significant effect on the people and their health. There was study done that by the year 2050,
more than 70% of the world population will be living in the cities. There are various factors,
which are the cause of the urban health issues (Hassan, 2013). They can be urban governance,
characteristics of the population, natural environment and the built environment, development in
terms of the economic and social life, emergency management related to health and the security
of the food. Cities bring opportunities but then they also bring issues and challenges in terms of
health. Today’s world is facing many more issues in health like TB, AIDS, pneumonia, non-
communicable diseases, diabetes, road accidents and other injuries and many more (Olokoba et
al., 2012).
The environment in urban world is actually the home for half of the population of the world and
from that; the 2/3rd of the population has diabetes. This situation is very alarming for all the
people. In the year 2014, Cities changing diabetes in which Mexico, Copenhagen, Houston and
many other countries participated in a program-started name. This report analyses the disease of
diabetes, which is the main point of concern in urban world today (Kaku, 2010).
RATIONALE OF THE REPORT
The type 2 diabetes which is also known as T2DM in short is actually a disorder which is related
to the metabolism that allows the sugar to collect in the blood flowing in the body because of the
low ability of the body to metabolize glucose. It was earlier found out that this disease occurs in
the middle-aged people but recently it has been seen that it has increased and happening to
children as well (Gov., 2002). Even in the children, the body becomes resistant to the natural
impacts of insulin. This disease progresses but this can easily be managed with changing the
lifestyle and by including the physical activity on a regular basis. This needs a little bit of weight
reduction too. There can be injections and medications taken which will keep the insulin to
regulate the blood sugar levels.

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In UK, more than 2.6 million people were detected of Type 2 diabetes and about 740,000
remained undiagnosed. This disease is costly as well as serious health diseased, which mostly
occurs in minority communities who are majorly at risk because of their culture and ethnicity
(UK, 2010).
There were new figures displayed which depicts that approximately 3.7 million people
were diagnosed of diabetes type 2 and then in the year 1998, the total number was
increased to 1.9 million more. Since 2017, a further increment in the data is seen when it
comes to the type 2 diabetes and type 1 too. The total number according to the year 2017
has come down to 3,590502 to 3,689,508 (UK, 2015).
The West Yorkshire city of Bradford is one of cities of UK is one of the highest in type 2
diabetes. It is found that in every one of 10 people i.e. 10.4% people live with the
diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. As compared to other cities, Richmond in London is one of
the lowest in type 2 diabetes. It has only 3.6 million people affected out of the total
population. In case of the average is taken out nationally then the number comes down to
6.6% (UK, 2017).
Totally one can say that 9 out of 10 people suffer with the disease of diabetes type 2. This
can be said because approximately 1 million people live with the condition who actually
does not even know that they have diabetes as they are not even diagnosed of it. The
undiagnosed population is still counting but the approximate number has reached to 4.6
million (Chaudhary et al., 2016).
Type1diabetes is presently not preventable but in type 2 diabetes, 3 out of five cases could
be prevented by making some lifestyle changes and pushing oneself towards the healthier
changes. This will even help other people to understand the risk for oneself for developing
the condition. People will even get to know how to reduce the diabetic impact on the body.
This can easily be done by doing the early diagnosis for the ones who are at high risk. If
the whole of United Kingdom is considered, the estimate is done of about 12.4 million
population have bigger danger of type 2 diabetes and there is a major reason of having

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diabetes is obesity. Obesity leads in the cause of the majority of the diseases that cannot
be prevented (WHO, 2016).
Out of every 5 women, 3 are obese which comes down to the percentage of 59% and out of
every three men, 2 are obese which comes down to the percentage of 68%. This is the data
of the people who were overweight in their first primary school of England. The
percentage increases to 34% till the time they leave from the primary school (ADA, 2002).
Consumption of Sugar in UK and Diabetes data
Source: (Google, 2018)
Obesity is one of the most important causes for any disease but especially it is an
important reason of getting diabetes as obesity creates fat in body and particularly in the
waist line which is a clear sign sometimes that the person has diabetes. It is accountable
for the 80% risk of the total danger of development of the type 2 diabetes & underlies the
present worldwide spread of the condition. As mentioned above, in UK out of the 3
people, 2 are overweight or obese. There has been an increase in the total number since the
year 1980 to 2013 and that increment is of 13% in total. This was the study that suggested
26% of boys and 29% of girls are obese. Most of the people are obese in England. The
data involves 61% of the adult people and 30%are kids who are between 2 to 15. This
proportion was also increased to the year 2011 and got to 58 % to 65% of men and 49 to
58% to women (Dendup et al., 2018).