Did you, the incidence of metabolic and endocrine diseases currently quite high? This disease is chronic and progressive so that the required monitoring and continuous control to prevent or slow the chronic complications.

In fact, metabolic and endocrine diseases (diabetes, thyroid, pituitary tumors, parathyroid glands, adrenal, gonadal, calcium and bone metabolism, as well as several other hormonal diseases) is often found too late due to the prevalence of knowledge has not been a doctor in this field, in addition to patient noncompliance. For information, Polyclinic Medicine Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM) found at least 80 percent of cases of diabetes, 10 percent of the thyroid, and 10 remaining non-thyroid.

"The WHO predicts type 2 diabetes mellitus in Indonesia amounted to 8.4 million in 2000, then increased to 21.3 million in 2010. Several cities in Indonesia even known to have quite a lot of patient numbers, namely North Sumatra, East Java, and Sulawesi. It is influenced by lifestyle, eating habits fried foods, fast food, and local foods that contain high sugar levels, "said Dr. Dr. Budiman Widjodjo, SpPD at a press conference of The 7th Jakarta Meeting Endocrine and Diabetes The 20th Jakarta Meeting (JEM), Jade Room, Hotel Nikko, on Wednesday (08/06/2011).

Explained Dr. Dr. Budiman Widjodjo SpPD, once one of diabetes, then the rest of his life will continue to diabetes. The best that can be done is to take reasonable precautions, including routine blood sugar control, control your intake of fat and cholesterol the body, and further measure abdominal circumference. Lho kok?

"The easiest way to detect whether someone is at risk of developing diabetes is to measure abdominal circumference. Beware if the abdominal circumference exceeded 80 cm for women and 90 cm for men. Because diabetes mellitus is a genetically inherited disease, it is important for patients to be screened family against the possibility of diabetes, "added Dr. Dr. Budiman Widjodjo SpPD.

One focus of the conference JEM is thyroid disease. Thyroiditis is inflammation of the thyroid gland which may provide a sense of pain and hard when touched.

"Thyroid Disease more experienced women than men. Symptoms of mild hypothyroidism, for example, easily tired, so often escape the attention of patients and missed diagnosis. You could say the disease is caused by lack of iodine intake in the body, "said Dr. Suharko Soebardi, SpPD-KEMD, on the same occasion.

Added another speaker, Dr. Suharko Soebardi, SpPD-KEMD, options for recovery that can be taken by the patients is removal of the thyroid gland. Is it only in part or in whole, depending on the degree of malignancy.