Diabetes Will Be ‘A Defining Disease of This Century’ As Global Cases Are Set to Surpass One Billion by 2050
STAT News - June 22, 2023
Shivani Agarwal, M.D., M.P.H., discusses a series in The Lancet, which she led, that described the exponential growth of diabetes globally, driven by structural racism and geographic inequities, and outlines action plans to address the issue. Dr. Agarwal is associate professor of medicine and associate director of the Fleischer Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism at Einstein and an endocrinologist at Montefiore.
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