Diabetes fights for recognition

Support for agriculture during economic transformation: Impacts on poverty and undernutrition

“…Importantly, the World Health Organization has predicted that some of the largest impacts of diabetes and cardiovascular disease up to 2015 will be felt not only in growing economies such as India and Indonesia but also in poor countries like Tanzania and Myanmar (22). Thus, the largest economic burden will be not expenditures for treatment in countries that today spend less than US $10 per person on all forms of health care but rather will be the cost associated with disability and loss of life into future generations.…”

The association between toll-like receptor 4 polymorphisms and diabetic retinopathy in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes

“…With an ageing population, these numbers will continue to increase. Considering the projected increase in the worldwide prevalence of diabetes, 380 million people will be diagnosed with DR by 2025 5. While the aetiology of DR continues to be largely unknown, it is thought to be a multifactorial disease.…”

The Close Association Between Low Economic Status and Glucose Intolerance in Elderly Subjects in a Rural Area in Laos

“…In developing countries, the nutrition transition paradox also has emerged with the phenomenon of the development of underweight and obesity in poor people 2 . Once thought of as a disorder of affluent people, DM is set to join malaria as a disease of poverty 3 . Nevertheless, there has been no report on the association between economic status, obesity, and DM diagnosed according to the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in community‐dwelling older people.…”