Every year, diabetes affects more and more people worldwide. No community remains
unaffected: the estimated number of people living with diabetes has soared to 366
million. It is set to affect 552 million by 2030
1International Diabetes Federation. The IDF Diabetes Atlas. fifth ed. Brussels: International
Diabetes Federation; 2011.
– nearly one in 10 people on the planet. New hotspots of diabetes have developed
in previously unsuspecting regions throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa, largely
as a corollary of ‘development’ – urbanization and the nutritional transition from
traditional diets to over-consumption of energy-dense processed products. Paradoxically,
poverty and under-nutrition, particularly of pregnant women, is a second major driver
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Publication history
Published online: February 15, 2012
Accepted:
January 27,
2012
Received:
January 27,
2012
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© 2012 Published by Elsevier Inc.
