Abstract
Diabetes mellitus is an incurable disease, when the human body is unable to process glucose in the blood because of absolute or relative deficiency of insulin. The number of people with diabetes in the Czech Republic has been growing for a long period and in 2012 there were more than 841 thousand people, who suffer from this disease.
In addition diabetes also affects the lives of patients. Diabetics are limited not only in their private life, but very often their disease also extends to the professional sphere and limits them in their work.
Along with high costs of treatment, it is necessary to include into the analysis also an increase in sick leave, which undoubtedly leads to high government expenditures. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the morbidity due to diabetes mellitus in the Czech Republic during the past twenty years.
The prevalence of diabetes, as well as the development of this disease by the type of diabetes or by the type of treatment, will be also discussed. But attention will be also paid to economic consequences that the increased prevalence of diabetes may bring.