Type 2 diabetes and related metabolic diseases are on the rise worldwide, and some of the world’s poorest people are bearing the brunt, a study shows.
The research, published in Cell Metabolism on 7 March, reports rising rates not only of diabetes but also of high blood pressure and obesity-linked liver disease. All three conditions are caused by problems with metabolism — the process of breaking down food into energy. And all three grew in prevalence between 2000 and 2019; for example, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes grew more than 1.5% annually in that time period (see ‘Global metabolic trouble’). The study also reports that obesity and high blood cholesterol levels are creating huge health burdens worldwide, with 5 million and 4.3 million deaths attributable to these conditions respectively in 2019.
Read more at: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00676-z
