Deadly Diabetes in ‘Unrelenting March’

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Deadly Diabetes in ‘Unrelenting March’



The world is facing an “unrelenting march” of diabetes which now affects nearly one in 11 adults, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
In a major report it warned cases had nearly quadrupled to 422 million in 2014 from 108 million in 1980.
High blood sugar levels are a major killer – linked to 3.7 million deaths around the world each year, it says.
And officials said the numbers would continue to increase unless “drastic action” was taken.
The report lumps both type 1 and type 2 diabetes together, but the surge in cases is predominantly down to type 2 – the form closely linked to poor lifestyle.
As the world’s waistlines have ballooned – with one-in-three people now overweight, so too has the number of diabetes cases.


How diabetes has taken its toll


422 million
adults were living with diabetes in 2014 – that’s
314 million
more than there were in 1980
  • 8.5% of adults worldwide has diabetes
  • 1.5 million people died as a result of diabetes in 2012
  • 2.2 million additional deaths were caused by higher-than-optimal blood glucose
  • 43% of these 3.7m people died before they were 70 years old
Source: WHO
Diabetes itself is the eighth biggest killer in the world, accounting for 1.5 million deaths each year.
But a further 2.2 million deaths are linked to high blood sugar levels. And 43% of the deaths were before the age of 70.

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