Global diabetes cases on pace to soar to 1.3 billion people in the next 3 decades, new study finds
Aging and obesity are likely to be the two primary drivers of the expected rise in diabetes. fotograzia/Moment via Getty Images The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The number of people living with diabetes worldwide is on pace to more than double in the next three decades, for a total of 1.3 billion people by 2050. That is one of the key findings from our study on the global burden of diabetes recently published in The Lancet. We analyzed and synthesized all available epidemiological data on diabetes burden – defined as health