Fourteen percent of the world’s people — more than 800 million — now have diabetes, a doubling of the global rate for the blood sugar disease since 1990, new statistics show. Type 2 diabetes, which makes up 95% of cases, is surging in poorer countries. However, across these resource-poor nations, only half of people get treated, said a team reporting Nov. 13 in The Lancet journal. That means that about 445 million people with diabetes aren’t controlling their blood sugar levels in ways that could keep them healthy. At the same time, folks living in richer nations saw a rise in their treatment rates, noted a team led by Majid Ezzati of Imperial College London (ICL).
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