More than 800 million people worldwide have diabetes

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Fourteen percent of the world's people -- more than 800 million -- now have diabetes, a doubling of the global rate for the blood sugar disease since 1990, new statistics show. Type 2 diabetes , which makes up 95% of cases, is surging in poorer countries. However, across these resource-poor nations, only half of people get treated, said a team reporting Wednesday in The Lancet journal. Advertisement That means that about 445 million people with diabetes aren't controlling their blood sugar

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