Diabetes, Killing Every Seven Seconds, Spurs Global Action Call
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Diabetes afflicts 366 million people, killing one every seven seconds, according to the International Diabetes Federation, which said new estimates of the global burden should spur greater action from world leaders.
The number of sufferers was pegged at 285 million worldwide in 2009. Since then, China reported 92.4 million people with the condition, more than double the federation’s estimate. That’s helped ratchet up health-care spending on diabetes to $465 billion, federation officials said at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes conference in Lisbon yesterday.