300,000 diabetics in their 20s and 30s...Pre-diabetes 3 million people.

The number of diabetic patients in their 20s and 30s in Korea exceeded 300,000, but it was found that they were not actively managed.

According to the 'Diabetes Fact Sheet 2024' released by the Korean Diabetes Association, 308,000 people, or 2.2% of the youth aged 19 to 39, are estimated to be diabetics.

Here, there were 228,000 patients in their 30s, nearly three times more than in their 20s, which is 80,000.

However, only 43.3% of doctors were formally diagnosed with diabetes, and only 34.6% were prescribed diabetes drugs.

In addition, the prevalence of pre-diabetes among young people in their 20s and 30s was 21.8%, with 3.03 million people not diabetic, but fasting blood sugar levels were higher than those of normal people.

Diabetes is a chronic disease in which blood sugar cannot be managed in the body due to insufficient insulin secretion or poor function, and it causes various complications such as stroke and myocardial infarction.