Global Diabetes Challenge The need for a worldwide effort to stop the rise in diabetes cases.
Despite the array of tools at our disposal to tackle the disease — effective drug therapies, advanced technology, ever-improving education and preventive strategies — the battle to protect people from diabetes and its disabling, life-threatening complications is being lost. Here we explore the global impacts of diabetes.
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimates that approximately 5 million people die each year as a consequence of diabetes: many of these deaths could be prevented.
This World Diabetes Day, IDF is highlighting the feasible and cost-effective solutions that exist to help identify people with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes and those at risk of developing it in the future.
It is of paramount importance that individuals and organisations working for the benefit of people with diabetes and people at risk of diabetes continue and strengthen their efforts.
