The Diabetes Watch
The world is currently in the grip of a diabetes epidemic, with the number of type 2 diabetes cases more than doubling since 1980, to 347 million in 2008. Unfortunately, epidemiological surveillance of non-communicable diseases like diabetes is woefully inadequate to the scope of the public-health threat.
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WELLINGTON – The world is currently in the grip of a diabetes epidemic. A recent major study by Majid Ezzati and colleagues from Imperial College London and Harvard University found that the number of adults with type 2 diabetes increased from an estimated 153 million in 1980 to 347 million in 2008. The number could be 370 million today.