One in Ten Adults Worldwide Have Diabetes

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One in 10 adults worldwide currently have diabetes, and these numbers are only expected to increase over the coming decades, according to the new International Diabetes Federation’s Diabetes Atlas.

) -- a measure of long-term blood sugar control in diabetes -- can be used to predict severe outcomes.

“There is a growing recognition of the burden of adult-onset type 1 [diabetes],” she says, noting that past studies have focused mostly on children, and it can also be difficult to distinguish type 1 from type 2 in adults. While Nordic countries -- Finland, Sweden, and Norway -- are among the top in the world for the incidence of both childhood-onset and adult-onset type 1, Eritrea isn’t even among the top 10 for childhood-onset type 1 diabetes, which makes this a bit of a mystery.

 

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So sad insulin is so expensive in the USA.

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