The worldwide epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus—present and future perspectives

L Chen, DJ Magliano, PZ Zimmet - Nature reviews endocrinology, 2012 - nature.com
Over the past three decades, the number of people with diabetes mellitus has more than
doubled globally, making it one of the most important public health challenges to all nations …

Early determinants of type-2 diabetes

LM Berends, SE Ozanne - Best practice & research Clinical endocrinology …, 2012 - Elsevier
The global prevalence of type-2 diabetes (T2D) has more than doubled in the last 30 years
and is predicted to continue to rise at an alarming rate. The associated health and financial …

[HTML][HTML] Diabetes and its drivers: the largest epidemic in human history?

PZ Zimmet - Clinical diabetes and endocrinology, 2017 - Springer
The “Diabesity” epidemic (obesity and type 2 diabetes) is likely to be the biggest epidemic in
human history. Diabetes has been seriously underrated as a global public health issue and …

Diabetes: a 21st century challenge

PZ Zimmet, DJ Magliano, WH Herman… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2014 - thelancet.com
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 …

Epidemiology of diabetes—status of a pandemic and issues around metabolic surgery

PZ Zimmet, KGMM Alberti - Diabetes care, 2016 - Am Diabetes Assoc
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of diabetes definition on global surveillance of diabetes prevalence and diagnosis: a pooled analysis of 96 population-based studies with 331 288 …

G Danaei, S Fahimi, Y Lu, B Zhou… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Diabetes has been defined on the basis of different biomarkers, including
fasting plasma glucose (FPG), 2-h plasma glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test …

Global aetiology and epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications

Y Zheng, SH Ley, FB Hu - Nature reviews endocrinology, 2018 - nature.com
Globally, the number of people with diabetes mellitus has quadrupled in the past three
decades, and diabetes mellitus is the ninth major cause of death. About 1 in 11 adults …

Early life factors and type 2 diabetes mellitus

X Jiang, H Ma, Y Wang, Y Liu - Journal of diabetes research, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a multifactorial disease, and its aetiology involves a
complex interplay between genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors. In recent years …

Causes of type 2 diabetes in China

RCW Ma, X Lin, W Jia - The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 2014 - thelancet.com
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 …

Epidemiology of diabetes

NG Forouhi, NJ Wareham - Medicine, 2010 - Elsevier
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disorder of glucose metabolism with serious clinical
consequences. The multi-system complications of diabetes include microvascular …