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Epidemiology of Diabetes

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Diabetes mellitus is a chronic, metabolic disease defined by increased concentrations of blood glucose which leads, over time, to progressive damage in most tissues and organs including heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, skin, and nerves. The most common is type 2 diabetes, commonly in adults, which occurs as result of the combination of insulin resistance with pancreatic beta cell insufficiency, with 50% of patients requiring insulin treatment within 10 years [1]. Type 1 diabetes, more frequent in children and adolescents, is a chronic autoimmune disease in which autoreactive T lymphocytes and inflammation cause severe loss of beta cells [2]. The incidence of diabetes exhibits an alarming pandemic scenario, in large part due to the global obesity epidemic [3]. Diabetes causes premature death, severe disability and great economic burden. Therefore, there is a globally agreed target to stop the growing incidence of diabetes and obesity by 2025 [4].

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  1. Division of Diabetology, Clinical Hospital of the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Mariano Javier Taverna M.D., Ph.D.

  2. National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Institute of Cardiological Investigations “Prof. Dr. Alberto C. Taquini” (ININCA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Mariano Javier Taverna M.D., Ph.D.

  3. School of Medicine, University of Salvador (USAL), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Mariano Javier Taverna M.D., Ph.D.

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  1. Dermatology Department, Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas A. Lanari, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Emilia Noemí Cohen Sabban

  2. Division of Diabetology, Department of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Félix Miguel Puchulu

  3. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Kenneth Cusi

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Taverna, M.J. (2018). Epidemiology of Diabetes. In: Cohen Sabban, E., Puchulu, F., Cusi, K. (eds) Dermatology and Diabetes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72475-1_1

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