September 19, 2020
Category :Healthy Advocacy
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Following the steady increase of Filipinos suffering and dying from “lifestyle diseases”, such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, stress, sleep disorder and addiction among others, the Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines launched the lifestyle diseases programs to help combat these ailments. Dubbed as “Pilipinas Go4Health“, the program was designed to prevent and control the prevalence of lifestyle diseases which are highly preventable with regular exercise, proper diet, and avoidance from drinking and smoking.
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June 4, 2020
Category :Diabetes Research
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In the Philippines, 4.1% of Filipinos have diabetes mellitus. In the present populations of the Filipinos, approximately 2.5% million of them have diabetes excluding the undiagnosed one. Diabetes is an illness of the insulin that produces cells in the pancreas of the body and of insulin itself. The illness when not treated will produce many complications. The diabetes mellitus complications may lead to blindness, kidney failure and gangrene of the extremities of the body. A person with diabetes is very susceptible to develop heart diseases such as high blood pressure, stroke and heart failure. Filipinos and diabetes are much related to each other.
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