The rising global prevalence of diabetes
As the Covid-19 pandemic dominated the headlines over the past year, the fact that the number of people living with — and dying from — diabetes has continued to rise has gone rather unnoticed.
Diabetes or its complications were responsible for the death of 6.7 million people worldwide in 2021, that’s one death every five seconds. Maybe surprisingly, there were more diabetes related deaths in 2021 than the 5.1 million registered global Covid-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.Read More
November 23rd, 2021