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Globally, an estimated 537 million adults are living with diabetes, according to 2019 data from the International Diabetes Federation. [1] Diabetes was the 9th-leading cause of mortality globally in 2020, attributing to over 2 million deaths annually due to diabetes directly, and to kidney disease due to diabetes. [2]
Diabetes is very common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that 38.4 million people in the United States are currently living with diabetes. That’s 11.6 percent of the ...
Obesity is a leading risk factor for metabolic diseases like pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes—and statistics on Americans with obesity nearly mirror those on people with diabetes.
The International Diabetes Federation reports that as of 2011 [needs update], 366 million people have diabetes; this number is projected to increase to over half a billion (estimated 552 million) by 2030. [4] 80 percent of people with diabetes live in developing countries and in 2011, diabetes caused 4.6 million deaths and approximately 78,000 ...
The number of people diagnosed as living with diabetes has increased sharply in recent decades, from 200 million in 1990 to 830 million by 2022. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] It affects one in seven of the adult population, with type 2 diabetes accounting for more than 95% of cases.
New research offers an alternative to daily insulin shots for the 8 million people in the United States with type 2 diabetes. Eli Lilly’s once-weekly insulin injection is just as effective as ...
Globally, an estimated 422 million adults are living with diabetes mellitus, according to the latest 2016 data from the World Health Organization (WHO). Diabetes prevalence is increasing rapidly; previous 2013 estimates from the International Diabetes Federation put the number at 381 million people having diabetes. The number is projected to ...
Researchers report ‘no indication of abnormalities’ and ‘functional reversal’ of patient’s diabetes a year after procedure