Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes is nearly four times as common as all types of cancer combined. It is fast becoming the 21st century's major public-health concern
On Barbara Young's office table is a graph. A bar chart, actually: four columns of green, purple, red and bright blue showing the progression, in England, of rates of coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes over the past five years. The first two are flatlining or falling. Cancer, in red, is rising, but slowly. Trace a line between the blue bars from 2005 to 2010, and it soars off the chart.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/oct/10/diabetes-the-epidemic
On Barbara Young's office table is a graph. A bar chart, actually: four columns of green, purple, red and bright blue showing the progression, in England, of rates of coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes over the past five years. The first two are flatlining or falling. Cancer, in red, is rising, but slowly. Trace a line between the blue bars from 2005 to 2010, and it soars off the chart.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/oct/10/diabetes-the-epidemic