Diabetes rates soar in SA

The number of SA adults with diabetes has soared to 4.5-million people, more than double the figure estimated in 2017, according to a new report from the International Diabetes Federation released on Thursday.

The report adds weight to a forecasting study published in the Lancet medical journal last year, which predicted a large global shift in deaths from infectious diseases to deaths from noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney disease and lung cancer. “The increasing prevalence of diabetes in SA is a wake-up call,” said Dinky Levitt from Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town, and a member of the IDF Diabetes Atlas committee. She described diabetes as a “serious threat to global health that respects neither socioeconomic status nor national boundaries”.Get our news and views in your inbox

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