With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization, a group of public health researchers in the US, UK, South Korea and Switzerland surveyed fasting plasma glucose (FPG) data from 2.7 million people in 199 countries since 1980, finding that in a single generation diabetes prevalence in the world has more than doubled from 153 million (1980) to 347 million (2008). The highest levels of FPG, and the highest diabetes prevalence were in Oceania, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East.  MORE