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Diabetes Increases Four-Fold Worldwide
GENEVA (AP) — Excessive weight, obesity, aging and population growth drove a nearly four-fold increase in worldwide cases of diabetes over the last quarter-century, affecting 422 million people in 2014, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday. In a new report on diabetes, the U.N. health agency called for stepped-up measures to reduce risk factors for diabetes and improve treatment and care that has ballooned in recent years alongside an increase in obesity rates. WHO said 8.5 percent of the world population had diabetes two years ago, up from 108 million, or 4.7 percent, in 1980. On Wednesday, WHO Director-Ge...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - April 7, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: General News Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders Source Type: news

Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Stroke in Women Compared With Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 64 Cohorts, Including 775,385 Individuals and 12,539 Strokes
Evidence from the World Health Organization indicates that cardiovascular risk is higher in individuals with diabetes. Furthermore, a growing body of evidence suggests that the relative risk (RR) of diabetes-related coronary heart disease is higher in women than in men. This systematic review and meta-analysis sought to elucidate whether this sex difference in RR also exists for stroke by identifying 64 cohort studies in PubMed reporting the sex-specific estimates of the relative risk for stroke associated with diabetes.
Source: The Journal of Emergency Medicine - August 23, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Skylar Johnson Tags: Abstracts Source Type: research