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- Relationship to Diabetes
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DOHA, Qatar ? The Excellence in Diabetes (EiD) 2014 meeting, to be held in Doha, Qatar, next week, is designed to bring together some of the world's experts in the field to address how best to intervene in what conference organizer, David Matthews, MD, of Oxford University, United Kingdom, says is undoubtedly a "pandemic."
"We're in the middle of a diabetes epidemic that is so serious most people call it a pandemic," he told Medscape Medical News. Initially, it looked like the rise in type 2 diabetes being seen in countries such as the United States and those in Europe "was a condition of Western nations," he explained. Now it is becoming crystal clear that the problem in these countries is only the tip of the iceberg.
In the United States, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has gone up from about 3% 20 years ago to around 8% to 9% now, said Dr. Matthews. And in the United Kingdom, "there has been a rise in type 2 diabetes from about 2% of the population to estimates that run from 4.5% up to 7%, depending on which part of the country you are in," he noted.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/820857
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"We're in the middle of a diabetes epidemic that is so serious most people call it a pandemic," he told Medscape Medical News. Initially, it looked like the rise in type 2 diabetes being seen in countries such as the United States and those in Europe "was a condition of Western nations," he explained. Now it is becoming crystal clear that the problem in these countries is only the tip of the iceberg.
In the United States, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has gone up from about 3% 20 years ago to around 8% to 9% now, said Dr. Matthews. And in the United Kingdom, "there has been a rise in type 2 diabetes from about 2% of the population to estimates that run from 4.5% up to 7%, depending on which part of the country you are in," he noted.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/820857
(free registration required)