The World Health Organisation (WHO), has said that the world is facing an "unrelenting march" of diabetes which now affects nearly one-in-11 people.
WHO warned in a major report that cases had virtually quadrupled from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. High blood sugar levels are a major killer - linked to 3.7 million deaths around the world each year, the world health body saiid, advising that the numbers would continue to increase unless "drastic action" was taken.
The report lumps both type 1 and type 2 diabetes together, but the surge in cases is predominantly down to type 2 - the form closely linked to poor lifestyle.
As the world's waistlines have ballooned, with one-in-three people now overweight, so too has the number of diabetes cases.
By: Seyi Gesinde
Nigerian Tribune News
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