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module menu icon The scale of the problem

  • About five million people in England have prediabetes and are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes
  • Every year, five to 10 per cent of people with prediabetes will progress to diabetes 
  • In England, 3.8 million people have type 2 diabetes and this is predicted to rise to 4.9 million by 2035
  • Approximately a third of this projected increase is due to obesity 
  • Some 60 per cent of type 2 diabetes cases could be prevented or delayed
  • In comparison with white Europeans, people from black African and Caribbean backgrounds are three times more likely, and people of South Asian heritage are six times more likely, to develop type 2 diabetes.
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