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Azerbaijan to attend Summit of Heads of Diabetes Organizations of CIS member states
Minsk, June 19 (AZERTAC). An Azerbaijani delegation will participate in the Summit of Heads of Diabetes Organizations of CIS member states in Minsk, Belarus.
The event is co-organized by the International Diabetes Federation and Belarusian Humanitarian Non-Governmental Organization “Children's Diabetes” (ByCD) under the agreement on cooperation of CIS member states in combating the growing incidence of diabetes.
The forum will bring together nearly 70 experts from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Great Britain, Georgia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Netherlands, Russia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Armenia.
The total number of people with diabetes is projected to rise from 171 million in 2000 to 366 million in 2030.
Overall, 7.5 million people with diabetes are estimated to have died in the year 2000. This includes 4.6 million people with diabetes assumed to have died from causes other than diabetes, plus the excess 2.9 million that died because of diabetes. In individuals with diabetes younger than 35 years, 75% of all deaths were attributable to diabetes; in individuals with diabetes aged 35-64 years, 59% of deaths were attributable to diabetes; while in individuals with diabetes and older than 64 years, 29% of all deaths were attributable to diabetes.