[Contribution of diabetes to the burden of diseases]

To overview the contribution of diabetes in the burden of diseases.

Based on the data published by MOH, prevalence rate, mortality rate, cause eliminated life year were used to calculate the health burden of disease. Meanwhile, direct economic burden of diseases was presented.

According the calculation, about 23 million of people suffered from diabetes and 90,000 died from diabetes. The cause eliminated life year attributed to diabetes is different between urban and rural, 0.21 years for urban and 0.08 years for rural. Moreover, the direct economic burden reached 1.071 billion RMB, about 1.88% of national health expenditure at the same period.

The burden of diabetes, based on calculation of both health and economic burden, and will give a heavy pressure to the government and society.