Title: Type 2 Diabetes Rates Quadruple Worldwide Since 1980
Headings: Type 2 Diabetes Rates Quadruple Worldwide Since 1980
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Type 2 Diabetes Rates Quadruple Worldwide Since 1980

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In 2014, 50% of adults with diabetes worldwide lived in five countries: China, India, the United States, Brazil, and Indonesia. The study estimates that age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes has more than doubled for men in India and China (3.7% to 9.1% in India; 3.5% to 9.9% in China) and increased by 50% among women in China (5.0% to 7.6%) and 80% among women in India (4.6% to 8.3%). Pakistan, Mexico, Egypt, and Indonesia are all now in the top 10 countries with the largest number of adults with diabetes. Age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes doubled in Pakistan, Mexico, and Indonesia for both women and men and nearly tripled in Egypt for both genders. And in the United States, age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes increased by 50% in women (4.3% to 6.4%) and by 80% in men (4.7% to 8.2%). ( These statistics conflict somewhat with the latest numbers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which released data in December suggesting that the incidence of diabetes may actually be declining in the United States)
Northwestern European countries had the lowest rates, with age-adjusted prevalence less than 4% in women and 5% to 6% in men in Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. By region, the Pacific Islands have the highest diabetes rates in the world, with Polynesia and Micronesia experiencing the greatest increases in diabetes prevalence, reaching over 20% in women and men.