Tackling structural racism is crucial to ending global diabetes crisis, researchers say

The number of people living with diabetes around the world could more than double in the next 30 years, increasing from 529 million in 2021 to over 1.3 billion by 2050, researchers have estimated.1In a series of three articles, published in the Lancet and Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, they warned that structural racism and geographic inequity in low and middle income countries are causing rates of diabetes, illness, and death to skyrocket.In the US, diabetes rates are 1.5 times higher among non-white ethnic groups compared with their white counterparts, while rates in low and middle income countries are double those in high income countries.Alarming riseThe authors of one paper on prevalence called the disease a “monumental global health threat” and said there was an “urgent need” to tackle the root causes of type 2 diabetes. “Without new and far reaching approaches targeting not only risk factors but also the social…
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