Atlas puts diabetes on the world map

Atlas puts diabetes on the world map [1]

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

“The spread of the western diet and couch-potato lifestyle has transformed diabetes, a ‘disease of affluence’ that now affects five percent of adults, into one of the world’s worst and fastest-growing health epidemics.” Financial Times, 6 November 2000. This was the thrust of the message read by thousands of people all over the world on the day the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) launched its first diabetes atlas, Diabetes Atlas 2000.

Issue:

Volume 47 | Issue 1 [2]

Author:

Allgot Bjørnar [3]

Gan Delice [4]

Attachment:

article_189_en.pdf [5]

Keywords:

atlas, publication, prevalence, figures, estimates, media

Section:

Media and Events [6]

Theme:

Research and studies [7]

Communication [8]

Awareness [9]