Climate Change and Diabetes Mellitus - Emerging Global Public Health Crisis: Observational Analysis

Climate Change and Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

Climate change is the most pressing challenge of the 21st century. It’s immediate impacts on the environment are extreme weather conditions such as heatwaves, storms, rains, floods, sealevel rise, the disruption of crops, agricultural systems, water, vector-borne diseases, and ecosystems. The weather-related disasters disturbed the natural biological environment and dislocated millions of people from their homes. The extreme weather conditions caused the deaths of about two million people and $4.3 trillion in economic loss over the past half a century, and 90% of deaths were reported from developing countries. It has also been predicted that between 2030 and 2050, climate change is presumed to cause about 250,000 additional deaths per annum. The rapid rise in temperatures, frequencies of heat waves, wildfires, storms, and other weather extremes conditions could affect human health in many ways. The one-degree Celsius rise in outdoor temperature causes over 100,000 new cases of diabetes mellitus per annum. Climate change compromised body metabolism, vasodilation, sweating, insulin resistance and cause Type-2 diabetes mellitus and gestational diabetes Mellitus.

doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.4.8844

How to cite this: Meo SA, Meo AS. Climate Change and Diabetes Mellitus - Emerging Global Public Health Crisis: Observational Analysis. Pak J Med Sci. 2024;40(4):559-562. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.40.4.8844

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