Source: USA Today, Tuesday, December 5, 2006
An estimated 246 million people in the world have diabetes, and
within 20 years the disease could afflict 380 million people, the
International Diabetes Federation reported Monday at the World Diabetes
Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. The estimates, which are published
in IDF's Diabetes Atlas, exceed pre-publication estimates released in
June that 230 million people have diabetes and up to 350 million will in
two decades. The IDF says diabetes, mainly type 2, which generally
occurs in midlife, afflicts almost 6% of adults world wide, and nearly
80% of cases are in developed countries. The highest rates are in the
Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, the report says, where more than
9% of adults have diabetes, followed by North America, where more than
8% of adults have the disease. "The diabetes time bomb has been ticking
for 50 years, and it's getting louder," IDF president-elect Martin
Silink said in a statement.
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