Number of adults living with diabetes quadrupled over past 35yrs – WHO

The number of adults estimated to be living with diabetes has nearly quadrupled over the past 35 years, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The UN health agency has urged healthier diets and increased levels of physical activity.

In its first ever global report on the disease, the WHO said on Wednesday that the number of adults with the disease had increased to 422 million (8.5 percent of the world's adults) by 2014, compared to 108 million (4.7 percent) in 1980.

Diabetes "is one of the leading killers in the world today," said Etienne Krug, who is heading the WHO's response to the disease .... https://www.rt.com