30. Diabetes: The Pandemic and Potential Solutions Select,
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K. M. Venkat Narayan, Ping Zhang, Alka M. Kanaya, Desmond E.
Williams, Michael M. Engelgau, Giuseppina Imperatore, and Ambady
Ramachandran Disease / Condition Hearing & Vision Loss While
diabetes affects persons of all ages and all races, it
disproportionately afflicts people living in the developed
world, where prevalence is higher. However, the number of 20– to
79–year–olds with diabetes is expected to jump 72 percent by
2025 most notably in the Middle East and North Africa, South
Asia, and Sub–Saharan Africa. Diabetes not only reduces a
person's quality of life and life expectancy, it also imposes a
significant economic burden on families and health care systems.
Complications of diabetes include microvascular diseases, such
as blindness and kidney failure, and mac