Diabetes Facts:
- Every 5 minutes, two
people die of diabetes-related causes and 14 adults are
newly diagnosed
- Ninety percent of
diabetes is Type II
- Diabetes has risen
rapidly in middle and low income countries
- People with diabetes has
increased from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014
- Almost half of all
deaths related to diabetes occurs before age 70
- The World Health
Organization (WHO) projects that diabetes will be the
seventh leading cause of death by 2030 and 50 % will die of
cardiovascular disease
- Healthy diet, physical
exercise, maintaining normal body weight, and avoiding
tobacco can help prevent the onset of type II diabetes
