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Diabetes
- Around 3% of adult men and women in the UK (around 1.3 million people) have diagnosed diabetes
- It is estimated there will be about 2 million people with diagnosed diabetes in the UK by the year 2010.
Source: British Heart Foundation
- Diabetes, which affects up to 3% of the UK population, consumes between 5% and 10% of total health care resources.
- 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
