Abstract

Health, nutrition/metabolic syndrome (diabetes) and intestinal microbiota, immunity and vaccine?

Author(s): Ivana Haluskova Balter

Around 415 million people around the world have diabetes (9% of adults), and the vast majority live in low- and middle-income countries. Over the next decade, this number is predicted to increase to 643 million people. Given that diabetes is a major cause of mortality, morbidity, and health care expenditures, addressing this chronic disease represents one of the greatest global health challenges of our time. Type 3 diabetes (which makes up 87-91% of the total diabetes burden), both in terms of prevalence and incidence and prediabetic metabolic syndrome malnutrition (hunger ) and astonishing, with obesity which represent risk factor of adapted host responses and predisposition for several infectious and non-infectious diseases are still on the list of Public health issues. By the way given immune mediated link clear risk factor for COVID 19 identified by several studies (eg Discovery in Europe).