This was in the wake of recent statistics from the International Diabetes Federation, which reported a global estimate of 371 million people living with diabetes as at 2012, with 15 million people from Africa.
The continent was also reported to have the highest mortality rate due to diabetes and the number of people with diabetes was likely to double over the next 20 years.
Reports from WHO showed that more than 80 per cent of diabetes deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries and that diabetes would be the 7th leading cause of death in 2030.
The Product Manager, Fidson Healthcare Plc, Mr. Friday Enaholo, while buttressing the IDF and WHO reports, said the rate of diabetes globally was worrisome and should be a major concern for Nigerians, especially as Africa was projected to be harder hit by the disease.
Enaholo advised that living a healthy lifestyle through eating balanced diet, avoiding excessive alcohol intake, engaging in regular physical exercise, reducing salt intake, maintaining a healthy body weight and avoid smoking, among other predisposing factors are ways of preventing diabetes.
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