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Number of diabetes deaths Number of deaths attributable to high blood glucose

males females

ages 30–69 1 070 ages 30–69 1 770

ages 70+ 1 460 ages 70+ 3 780

Operational policy/strategy/action plan for diabetes

Evidence-based national diabetes guidelines/protocols/standards

Standard criteria for referral of patients from primary care to higher level of care

Diabetes registry

Recent national risk factor survey in which blood glucose was measured

Availability of medicines, basic technologies and procedures in the public health sector

Medicines in primary care facilities Basic technologies in primary care facilities

Procedures

〇 = not generally available = generally available

Saudi Arabia Total population: 31 540 000Income group: High Mortality*

females males

500 3 840

1 020 4 390

Proportional mortality (% of total deaths, all ages)* Trends in age-standardized prevalence of diabetes

Prevalence of diabetes and related risk factors

males females total

Diabetes 14.7% 13.8% 14.4%

Overweight 67.5% 69.2% 68.2%

Operational policy/strategy/action plan to reduce physical inactivity Yes

Obesity 29.5% 39.5% 33.7%

Physical inactivity 52.1% 67.7% 58.5%

National response to diabetes

Policies, guidelines and monitoring

Yes

Operational policy/strategy/action plan to reduce overweight and obesity Yes

Available and fully implemented†

Available and fully implemented

Yes

Yes

Insulin ● Blood glucose measurement ● Metformin ● Oral glucose tolerance test ● Sulphonylurea ● HbA1c test ●

Dilated fundus examination ○ Retinal photocoagulation DK Foot vibration perception by tuning fork ● Renal replacement therapy by dialysis ● Foot vascular status by Doppler ○ Renal replacement therapy by transplantation ● Urine strips for glucose and ketone measurement ● * The mortality estimates for this country have a high degree of uncertainty because they are not DK = country responded "don't know"

based on any national NCD mortality data (see Explanatory Notes).

† = documentation not provided

World Health Organization – Diabetes country profiles, 2016.

No data available

Cardiovascular diseases

46%

Cancers 10%

Respiratory diseases

3%

Diabetes 5%

Other NCDs 14%

Communicable, maternal, perinatal

and nutritional conditions

13%

Injuries 9%

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