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New Zealand needs urgent action to tackle the frightening rise and cost of type 2 diabetes

  • Written by Jim Mann, Professor of Medicine and Director, Healthier Lives National Science Challenge and the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, University of Otago
New Zealand needs urgent action to tackle the frightening rise and cost of type 2 diabetesShutterstock/Kwangmoozaa

Type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in New Zealand and will get much worse unless action is taken now, according to a new report on the economic and social cost of the disease.

Already 228,000 New Zealanders (4.7% of the population) have type 2 diabetes. The estimated annual cost is NZ$2.1 billion — a...

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