The Looming Worldwide Diabetes Epidemic
The Diane Rehm Show
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 10:06 a.m.
A new report predicts one in
10 adults worldwide could have diabetes by 2030. More than 350 million
people already have the disease. For years, global resources have been
aimed at fighting infectious diseases like malaria and swine flu. Now,
developing countries are ill-equipped to provide the long-term care
needed for diabetes patients. In the United States, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) projects one in three Americans
will have diabetes by 2050. While diabetes awareness has increased in
the U.S., more than 25 percent of Americans don't even know they have
it. Diane and her guests examine the causes and costs of the diabetes
epidemic and efforts to reverse the trend.
Guests
Leonor Guariguata
epidemiologist, International Diabetes Federation
Maya Rockeymoore
director, Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Dr. Rita Kalyani
assistant professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins University; and editor, Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide
Dr. Judith Fradkin
director, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolic Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ann Albright
director, division of diabetes translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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