Diabetes is one of the major public health problems of the 21 st century. Diabetes is a huge and growing problem, and the costs to society are high and escalating. Today diabetes affected more than 387 million people, almost 8.3% of the world’s adult population and is expected to affect 592 million by 2035. The majority of the 387 million people with diabetes are aged between 40 and 59, and 80% of them live in low-and middle-income countries. In year 2014 one person in every 7 second and totally more than 4.9 million people died from diabetes-related causes. The economic cost of diabetes and its complications is enormous both for people and health care sytems. However, type 2 diabetes can be prevented or delayed by changes in the lifestyle in persons at high risk for disease.
Keywords: diabetes prevention, evidence based recommendation, life style modification, screening, type 2 diabetes