Who doesn’t like something sweet?
These days, including many highballs and non-alcoholic drinks, it is increasingly difficult to avoid something sweet. It is tempting to correlated such trend and recent rise of diabetes in young adult groups in Korea. Diabetes is one of the representative chronic diseases, and there is a perception in Korea that it is commonly caught in the 40s and 50s. However, attention needs to be paid to the recent surge in the number of "young diabetes" patients in their 20s and 30s. Acc ording to statistics from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of diabetic patients in their 30s was 121,568 in 2020, up 25.5% from four years ago, and the prevalence rate in their 20s increased by about 47% during the same period, showing a serious increase. If diabetes is diagnosed at a young age in their 20s and 30s, the risk of chronic vascular complications may increase as the period of exposure to high blood sugar increases. A bigger problem is that 80% of diabe