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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9136

22 February 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health
25 million diabetics in EU

Brussels, 21/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - At a conference organised by the Austrian Presidency in Vienna on 16 and 17 February, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) presented a report entitled “Diabetes: the Policy Puzzle - Towards Benchmarking in the EU 25”. According to this report, in the EU today, around 25 million people are estimated to be living with diabetes. The reported EU average diabetes prevalence rate is 7.5% among adults aged 20 or over, and it is estimated that up to...

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