Diabetes

1 in 11 adults around the world have diabetes. That’s about 60 million people across Europe, equivalent to the total Italian population. This number increases significantly every year. If current trends continue, diabetes will be the number one health threat in the coming years.

The European Diabetes Sector Group aims to reverse this trend by taking meaningful collective action to help avoid the diabetes pandemic where possible, and when diagnosis occurs to put people at the centre of care and give them back a full and fear-free life.

Diabetes is a silent pandemic. Changing habits and new environmental realities have led to increased rates of this chronic condition, which requires long-term treatment and care. This growing demand places a major stress on healthcare systems, which are not designed around long-term chronic disease management, as well as on our societies’ wider economic and social structures.

The Diabetes Sector Group of MedTech Europe is committed to helping move healthcare systems forward to meet the demands and opportunities of this changing world. Bringing together leading companies in the field of diabetes, we engage widely across the diabetes community to achieve these aims and put people with diabetes, rightly, at the centre of our world.

Source: medtecheurope