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: Patients have to control their diets and may have to take additional insulin and other medications to balance out their blood sugar levels. If left untreated, diabetes can cause complications including glaucoma, cataracts, other eye problems, neuropathy (nerve damage) that leads to numbness in the feet, skin infections, high blood pressure, depression, hearing loss and oral health problems. IDF points out that the number of people with diabetes, especially the Type 2 form, has increased in every country. The number of total diabetes cases have increased 4.4 percent over the last two years, now affecting more than 5 percent of the global population. "We haven't seen any kind of stabilizing, any kind of reversal," Leonor Guariguata, an epidemiologist and project coordinator for IDF's Diabetes Atlas, said to Businessweek. " 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.