The comprehensive article on diabetes in Canada's First Nations by Kue Young and
colleagues describes a modern epidemic. 1 However, it seems that little has been said …

The great non-event of 1965 was the publication of World Health Organisation Technical
Report Series No. 310, otherwise known as" Diabetes Mellitus. Report of a WHO Expert …

Since the Office of Health Economics first published a paper about diabetes 25 years ago a
great deal has happened. For one thing diabetes mellitus has been accepted as an …

Paul Zimmet of Melbourne, Australia, opened the meeting with the Aharon Cohen Memorial
Lecture. He described the global epidemic of diabetes as a “clash between genes and the …

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Abstract “The love of money is the root of all evil” saith the prophet. But the need for money
in a good cause can be a powerful stimulus; indeed it led to the beginning of The Diabetic …

A disease as ancient, prevalent and serious as diabetes attracts mythology, and the edges
of its history blur. The ancient Greek word diabetes, originally deriving from the verb …

New Zealand is a country in the South Pacific with a high proportion of Polynesians. While
the prevalence of diabetes appears the same in New Zealand Europeans as Europeans …

According to the most recent publication of the International Diabetes Federation, 5 of the
top 10 countries with the highest prevalence rates of diabetes in the world are located within …

Lipscombe and Hux state this fact as being one of the chief contributors to the diabetes
burden in Canada. However, they do not mention the increased likelihood (three to five …