Diabetes

The number of people diagnosed with diabetes has jumped more than 60% in just 10 years.

In a 10-year period the number of new diabetes cases soared 63%

Newly-released figures found that an increase in obesity was fuelling the soaring rates of Type 2 diabetes.

The findings suggest the number of sufferers in the UK is increasing faster than in the US, where prevalence of the disease is one of the highest in the world.

In the six-year period between 1997 and 2003 the number of new cases soared 74%, and rose 63% across the entire decade.

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