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U.S. Is Third On List Of Maximum Number of Diabetes
Cases
posted 05/19/04
India, China and United States top the list of countries with
the maximum number of diabetes cases and this number is expected to more than
double by 2030, a report says.
In the United States, third only to India and China in diabetes cases, the number will increase by 70 per cent, says a study by researchers with the World Health Organization and universities in Scotland, Australia and Denmark.
Researchers estimate that 366 million people, or 4.4 per cent of the world's population, will be diabetic by 2030 -- up from 171 million, or 2.8 per cent of the population, in 2000.
The study is attributes rise in number of diabetics primarily to population changes, including increase in the number of people older than 65.
"The human and economic costs of this epidemic are enormous," the researchers said and "a concerted, global initiative is required to address the diabetes epidemic." The new estimates find levels of diabetes climbing faster than previously thought.
The study's prediction that 30.3 million Americans will have diabetes by 2030 reflects a much faster rate of increase than was estimated in 2001 by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which projected 29 million cases by 2050.
Source: Diabetes In Control.com: World Health Organization Report May, 2004.
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