To assess the general knowledge of Tunisians on diabetes, Novo Nordisk, a pharmaceutical company specializing in the treatment of this disease asked, during the month of October, to Ipsos Health to do a survey of people over 18 years of age. The results have just fallen.
According to this 30 % survey of those questioned run a large risk of diabetes. Among these 30 %, only 7 % informed this risk by a health professional, but did not see good attention to it. 51 % of these 30 % “consider their weight as a little or far too high, 4 %” think that it is very likely that they would be diabetics during their lifetime “, 42 % have never done a blood glucose analysis and could live with diabetes.
You should know that a person suffering from diabetes and hypertension can have twice as much “bad luck” to have an attack. However with us 37 % of those questioned were not aware of this and for 90 % “diabetes is a less serious health problem than attack”. On the other hand, diabetes is the most frequent cause of kidney failure while 41 % of those questioned think that this has no relation.
It is normal that people who do not have contact with the disease can be ignorant. However, it is surprising that diabetics know so little about the disease they have reached. Thus, 15 % of them believe that diabetes is not a cause of blindness, while it is among one of the main ones, and 13 % “that diabetes cannot lead to organ amputation”. A high percentage compared to the general population of which only 9 % do not know that diabetes is the main cause of the amputation of the lower limbs.
Recall that World Diabetes Day has been set each year on November 14.
