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Diabetes

  • Around 3% of adult men and women in the UK (around 1.3 million people) have diagnosed diabetes

Source: British Heart Foundation

  • Diabetes, which affects up to 3% of the UK population, consumes between 5% and 10% of total health care resources.
  • In the UK there are currently over 2.3 million people with diabetes and more than half a million people who have the condition and don't know it.
  • Diabetes is set to increase. It is predicted that diabetes prevalence will double world-wide, rising to at least 5% by 2010, accounting for 3.07 million people in the UK.

Source: Diabetes UK