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Nature Reviews Endocrinology 2, 649 (1 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncpendmet0353

Keep an eye on diabetes

Ele Ferrannini

Diabetes has been with us throughout recorded history but recently knowledge of this disease has increased dramatically, which has brought good news and bad. On the minus side, diabetes prevalence is rising virtually everywhere in the world as a result of population aging (and, happily, prolonged survival of affected people).