A new Diabetes Atlas: new data, new hope

A new Diabetes Atlas: new data, new hope [1]

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 11:04

"More than 300 million people world wide are at risk of developing diabetes, and the disease's economic impact in some hard-hit countries could be higher than that of the AIDS pandemic, diabetes experts warned." Reuters, 25 August 2003. This was the thrust of an article which was read by people all over the world on the day on which the second edition of the Diabetes Atlas was launched by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).

Issue:

Volume 48 | Issue 3 [2]

Author:

Gan Delice [3]

Attachment:

article_40_en.pdf [4]

Keywords:

Atlas, Prevalence, IGT, Figures, Estimates

Section:

Media and Events [5]

Theme:

Healthcare costs [6]

Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) [7]

Events [8]

Communication [9]

Awareness [10]