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"The Canadian Diabetes Association reports that nine million Canadians live with diabetes or prediabetes and that 20 new cases are diagnosed every hour. &amp;amp;#147;We are currently in the middle of a global epidemic of type 2 diabetes,&amp;amp;#148; says Dr. Bernard Zinman, professor of medicine at U of T and senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital &amp;amp;#147;Canada is similarly affected and this tsunami of diabetes will have a devastating impact on the patients affected, their families and the health care system.&amp;amp;#148;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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