Northerner
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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Very good article:
Diabetes is nothing short of an epidemic, with an accompanying crisis for healthcare costs, but you would not know it
Diabetes currently affects around 30 million people in Europe. This is due to rise sharply, with around 50 million people, or 10 per cent of the continent's population, expected to be suffering from the disease by 2025. It is nothing short of an epidemic, with an accompanying crisis for healthcare costs, but you would not know it from the lack of attention it has had. The devastating health and financial implications that will result from an increase in diabetes will are finally starting to be recognised by the international community. A special United Nation summit, in September, pledged urgent action to tackle chronic or so-called non-communicable diseases - which means non-infectious conditions including asthma, strokes, cancer and heart disease as well as diabetes. This is long-overdue recognition of how big this health challenge is already for rich countries, but increasingly so for poorer ones too.
http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/1053/europe-ignoring-diabetes-ticking-time-bomb
Diabetes is nothing short of an epidemic, with an accompanying crisis for healthcare costs, but you would not know it
Diabetes currently affects around 30 million people in Europe. This is due to rise sharply, with around 50 million people, or 10 per cent of the continent's population, expected to be suffering from the disease by 2025. It is nothing short of an epidemic, with an accompanying crisis for healthcare costs, but you would not know it from the lack of attention it has had. The devastating health and financial implications that will result from an increase in diabetes will are finally starting to be recognised by the international community. A special United Nation summit, in September, pledged urgent action to tackle chronic or so-called non-communicable diseases - which means non-infectious conditions including asthma, strokes, cancer and heart disease as well as diabetes. This is long-overdue recognition of how big this health challenge is already for rich countries, but increasingly so for poorer ones too.
http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/1053/europe-ignoring-diabetes-ticking-time-bomb