KUALA LUMPUR: The prevalence of diabetes is still showing an alarmingly upward trend every year, despite globally agreed targets to control the risk of diabetes by 2025.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said an estimated 537 million adults aged 20 to 79 are currently suffering from diabetes globally.
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