The prevalence of diabetes in China has increased substantially over recent decades, with
more than 100 million people estimated to be affected by the disease presently. During this …

Diabetes is a much more heterogeneous disease than the present subdivision into types 1
and 2 assumes; type 1 and type 2 diabetes probably represent extremes on a range of …

China has a large burden of diabetes: in 2013, one in four people with diabetes worldwide
were in China, where 11· 6% of adults had diabetes and 50· 1% had prediabetes. Many …

Prevalence of type 2 diabetes has rapidly increased in native and migrant Asian
populations. Diabetes develops at a younger age in Asian populations than in white …

Many non-communicable chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, are highly prevalent,
costly, and largely preventable. The prevention and management of type 2 diabetes in south …

Diabetes was seriously underrated as a threat to global public health until very recently.
However, the situation is now changing and the world can no longer ignore the inexorable …

Rapid economic change in China is propelling a wave of diabetes that health professionals
and the public and are only beginning to wake up to. Ted Alcorn and Yadan Ouyang …

Bommer and colleagues1 report that the cost of diabetes worldwide was US $1· 31 trillion, or
1· 8% of the global gross domestic product (GDP), in 2015. Their study of the global …

The number of people with diabetes worldwide has more than doubled during the past 20
years. One of the most worrying features of this rapid increase is the emergence of type 2 …

In The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Rifat Atun and colleagues1 report findings of a
Commission on diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa, bringing together and critically analysing …