Title: 10 percent of world will have diabetes by 2035: Report - CBS News
Headings: 10 percent of world will have diabetes by 2035: Report
10 percent of world will have diabetes by 2035: Report
Content: Diabetes continues to be a very big problem and is increasing even beyond previous projections." According  to the report, despite better treatments and improving education strategies, the battle to protect people from diabetes and its complications "is being lost." Dr. Juliana Chan, a professor of medicine and therapeutics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the BBC that in China, she feels the rising rates of diabetes are due to different genetic, lifestyle and environmental factors not helped by the  fact that the country is becoming modernized rapidly. China had the highest total number of citizens with the disease, with an estimated  98.4 million to be diagnosed by the end of 2013. "It is typically an ageing disease, but the data shows that the young  and middle-aged are most vulnerable. It is prevalent in obese people but emerging data suggests that for lean people with diabetes the outcome can be worse," she explained. She said the disease is tricky because it has a lot of "paradoxes," but she is hopeful that the country has the ability and money to fix their health care system to address the growing problems. The report's authors call for diabetes to be placed high on the agendas of health ministers throughout the world. "IDF Diabetes Atlas' latest figures provide a worrying indication of the future impact of diabetes as a major threat to global development," they said.