10pc world adult population to suffer from diabetes

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An estimated 10 per cent of the world’s adult population, nearly 600 million people, will suffer from the diabetes epidemic by 2035, according to a recent report.

The ‘Rising to the Challenge’ report, published at the World Innovation Summit for Health in Doha, recently, called for policymakers to address the serious, urgent and universal diabetes challenge.

Diabetes currently lacks the public or political priority that it should have, according to experts, who have proposed three clinical goals for policymakers.

http://www.tradearabia.com/news/HEAL_275682.html

(there's a typo in the report - it should say 2035 where it says 2015)
 
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