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"Diabetes Awareness"

The Customer Service Centre has organized a Health Talk together with the Lion Club on "Diabetes Awareness". The talk was held on 11th April 2003 at Level 12, See Hoy Chan Sdn. Berhad and the speaker was Dr Kung Lim Sie Syn and Lion Tony Chen (a diabetic). During Dr Kung and Lion Tony Chen's talk, they shared with us their knowledge and experience in handling diabetes.

Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood is too high because the body cannot use it properly. Glucose comes from the digestion of food and from the liver. Glucose is taken from blood into the cells of the body. It helps to produce energy to drive metabolic processes, convert to glycogen to store energy and use to build proteins. While insulin is a hormone secreted by special cells in the pancreas, it acts as a key to help glucose enter into the cells. Insufficient or ineffective insulin results in high glucose level, as glucose cannot enter the cells.

About 1.7 million people in Malaysia are believed to be suffering from diabetes, whether they know it or not. 50% of them do not even know that they have diabetes. In people with diabetes, glucose level builds up in the blood and spill out in the urine, causing excessive urination, thirst, hunger and problems in fat and protein metabolism. Diabetes is most common in people who are overweight and/or physically inactive and individuals who have immediate family members with diabetes.

Diabetes is classified into two types, which are Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes, formerly called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), it develops when there is a severe lack of insulin in the body because most or all of the cells in the pancreas that produce it have been destroyed (known as insulin deficiency). Type 1 diabetes develops much more quickly, usually over a few weeks and symptoms are normally very obvious. However, Type 1 diabetes accounts for only 5% of all diabetic cases.