Global Demand For Insulin Is Increasing Dramatically,

reports researchers found that “a global diabetes epidemic is fuelling record demand for insulin but tens of millions will not get the injections they need unless there is a dramatic improvement in access and affordability.” The findings were published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. MedPage Today (11/20, Monaco) reports “researchers estimated from a modeling analysis” that “the amount of insulin needed to treat type 2 diabetes globally is likely to climb by more than 20% by 2030.” The article adds that “in an accompanying commentary,” Dr. Hertzel Gerstein of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, said the researchers used a “highly sophisticated approach” to create “a clearly described, rigorously designed, and flexible mathematical model that allowed them to estimate the number of insulin users and the amount of insulin that will be required worldwide by 2030 under various assumptions. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-diabetes-insulin/millions-left-behind-as-diabetes-drives-surge-in-insulin-demand-idUSKCN1NQ00B