WHO urges action to reduce diabetes risk factors and improve treatments

The World Health Organisation says excessive weight, obesity, ageing, and population growth drove a nearly fourfold increase in worldwide cases of diabetes over the last quarter- century, affecting 422m people in 2014.

The UN health agency is calling for stepped-up measures to reduce risk factors for diabetes and improve treatment and care.

WHO director general Margaret Chan said: “We need to rethink our daily lives: To eat healthily, be physically active, and avoid excessive weight gain.”