WELLINGTON – The world is currently in the grip of a diabetes epidemic. A recent major study by Majid Ezzati and colleagues from Imperial College London and Harvard University found that the number of adults with type 2 diabetes increased from an estimated 153 million in 1980 to 347 million in 2008.
发自惠灵顿——我们的世界正在陷入一场糖尿病不断蔓延的漩涡之中。最近由马吉德·伊扎蒂与其伦敦帝国理工学院和哈佛大学的同僚们共同进行的一项重要研究显示：患有二型糖尿病鸟的成年人数量已经从1980年的约1.53亿上升到2008年的约3.47亿。而今年这个数字可能达到3.7亿。