million people affected worldwide in 1980.
million people affected worldwide in 2014.
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The global prevalence of diabetes among adults over 18 (2014).
World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness campaign focusing on diabetes mellitus and is held on November 14 each year.
Led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), each World Diabetes Day focuses on a theme related to diabetes.[1] Topics covered have included diabetes and human rights, diabetes and lifestyle, diabetes and obesity, diabetes in the disadvantaged and the vulnerable, and diabetes in children and adolescents. While the campaigns last the whole year, the day itself marks the birthday of Frederick Banting who, along with Charles Best andJohn James Rickard Macleod, first conceived the idea which led to the discovery of insulin in 1922.
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