Western diet, diabetes could spawn tuberculosis epidemic

New research suggests people with diabetes are three times more likely to contract tuberculosis, worrying health officials, the increasing size could increase the return from a long illness at the decline in the United States and around the world.

Despite decline of tuberculosis in recent decades, the disease was still millions of people each year. In 2013, nine million people have been diagnosed with a bacterial disease that primarily attacks the lungs. More than 1.5 million people died.

Now, experts from the World Health Organization and other concerns efforts, life-threatening illness could control the rise in obesity and diabetes affect rates worldwide. Since TB strains are not exactly rare - less than a third of the world population carries the seed - and because diabetes suppresses the immune system, there is the very real possibility of a co-epidemic.

This reality is increasingly likely that more and more countries of Western diets, fat and sugar to accept higher - and ultimately increased rates of diabetes.

Presented in a White Paper at the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona last month, the researchers wrote that. "Diabetes is the engine of the spread of tuberculosis"

"With diabetes increases the risk that a person is sick with TB is," the report continues. "Diabetes is also more difficult for people who manage tuberculosis. And a sick person with both diseases likely complications that are not usually available when one is alone in this. "

"The reduced immunity peoples diabetes," repeated Dr. Anthony Harries, Senior Advisor to the CNN International Union said recently, a weakened immune system is more vulnerable to the threat of latent TB germs.

"Overall, we have more than 2 billion people latent TB," said Harries. "Put diabetes in this equation, and you can immediately see, there is a problem."

Harries and others say that we already have an idea of what a co-epidemics like tuberculosis and HIV destroys many African communities in the last two decades. Health authorities must act quickly, experts say, to prevent the same thing happening with tuberculosis and diabetes.

You can do this by waiting on the prevention and early detection test work in countries, increased rates of diabetes, how to experience India, China, Brazil, Indonesia, Pakistan and Russia. Health authorities assume that life by 2035, 592 million people with diabetes.