Diabetes will be ‘a defining disease of this century’ as global cases are set to surpass one billion by 2050
"The world has failed to understand the social nature of diabetes and underestimated the true scale and threat the disease poses."
The number of people with diabetes worldwide is set to more than double to 1.3 billion by 2050, a new study finds, a trend accelerated by widening inequities both between and within countries.
By 2050, about 1 in 10 people around the world are predicted to have the disease, representing a 60% surge in the prevalence of diabetes, according to the study, published Thursday in the Lancet as part of a wide-ranging series on global inequities in diabetes.
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