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A comprehensive statistic resource for life and health professionals.
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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
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