Does WHI tell us how to prevent diabetes?

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Diabetes is occurring in epidemic proportions around the globe. Using the WHO global database, King and colleagues have estimated that the number of adults with diabetes will increase from 135 million in 1995 to 300 million in 2025, with a predicted world diabetes prevalence of 5.4% [1]. Most of these future cases are expected to occur in the developing world, but the prevalence of self-reported diabetes in the United States has already increased, from 4.9% in 1990 to 7.3% in 2000 [2]. Women are more likely to develop diabetes [2], and since women with diabetes have not experienced the same reduction in cardiovascular outcomes as men with diabetes in recent years [3], it can be a particularly devastating disease for them. …