Diabetes was the fourth leading cause of death in Taiwan last year, and is a contributing cause of strokes (the number-two killer), cardiovascular disease (ranking third), and kidney dysfunction (tenth). To be more exact, diabetes is directly or indirectly involved in more than half the fatalities due to the ten leading causes of death in Taiwan.
糖尿病是去年國人十大死亡原因的第四位，同時也是導致腦中風（死亡原因第二位）、心血管疾病（死亡原因第三位）和腎臟病變（死亡原因第十位）的幕後兇手之一，更精確地說，國人十大死因中，過半數都與糖尿病有關。