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Diabetes A Huge Problem
Health Vision
|November 2017
Nine percent of India’s population is likely to be affected diabetes by 2030. Alarming rise of diabetes has become a development issue and it threatens the health and economic prosperity of people, says a report.
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India leads the world in the number of people suffering from diabetes and by 2030, nearly nine percent of the country’s population is likely to be affected from the disease, the International Diabetic Federation (IDF) has warned.
About 50.8 million people are now suffering from the looming epidemic of diabetes, followed by China with 43.2 million.
According to a report released at the 20th annual World Diabetes Congress of IDF, the U.S. has 26.8 million people suffering from the disease, while it is 9.6 million in Russia, 7.6 million in Brazil and 7.5 million in Germany.
Pakistan is the third Asian country with 7.1 million diabetic patients while Japan has 7.1 million and Indonesia has 7 million, according to the latest IDF data.
There are 285 million diabetes cases worldwide, accounting for seven percent of the world’s population.
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