Some facts about diabetes as a reminder https
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-In China today there are 110million people with diabetes and in India 77million
-In the US 88million are prediabetic
-More than 34 million Americans have diabetes, which is nearly 11% of the U.S. population. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2020)
Every 17 seconds, an American is diagnosed with diabetes. (The American Journal of Managed Care, 2018)
There are 1.5 million new cases of diabetes in the United States each year. (American Diabetes Association [ADA], 2020)
-An estimated 700 million adults worldwide will have diabetes by 2045
-In a few years Nr1 killer in South Africa will be diabetes
-The American Diabetes Association (ADA) released new research on March 22, 2018 estimating the total costs of diagnosed diabetes have risen to $327 billion in 2017 from $245 billion in 2012, when the cost was last examined.
-Sebastian Vollmer from the University of Göttingen have calculated that in 2015 the worldwide economic burden of diabetes reached $1.3 trillion or 1.8 percent of the global GDP. The results of the study are published in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
https://www.diabetes.org/resources/statistics/cost-diabetes
https://www.singlecare.com/blog/news/diabetes-statistics/