Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980 : A pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants has recently been published in The Lancet as an open access article. A global target is to keep the incidence of adult diabetes at 2010 levels by 2025. This analysis aimed to see if this target was likely to be achieved, and whether population growth and ageing are affecting the numbers of people living with this disease.
The researchers looked at data on diabetes in 200 countries from 1980-2014 and found that since 1980, age-standardised diabetes prevalence in adults has increased, or at best remained unchanged, in every country. This has led to a near quadrupling of the number of adults with diabetes worldwide and is much worse in low-income and middle-income countries.
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration. The Lancet Vol. 387, No. 10027, p 1513–1530, 9 April 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00618-8
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