WHO: Diabetes rises fourfold over last quarter-century<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nSome 422 million adults around the world had diabetes in 2014, compared to 108 million in 1980, according to a report published by the World Health Organization in 2016.<\/p>\n
Diabetes rates have increased more rapidly in low and middle-income countries.<\/p>\n
Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks and lower limb amputations, according to the WHO.<\/p>\n
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