Paul Zimmet, honorary president of the International Diabetes Federation, says the sheer number of diabetics in China is catastrophic. It’s forced him to frame the global epidemic in a new way.

An estimated 113.9 million Chinese adults 18 years or older--60.5 million men and 53.4 million women—may have had diabetes in 2010, according to a study published in the Journal of the American ...

Even more shocking is that China’s diabetes prevalence has increased from 1 percent in 1980 to 11.6 percent in 2010, which is even higher than the United States (11.3 percent).

China Faces Diabetes Epidemic March 24, 2010 / 10:35 PM EDT / AP After working overtime to catch up to life in the West, China now faces a whole new problem: the world's biggest diabetes epidemic.

While China accounts for 19 per cent of the world’s population, it had more than 30 per cent of adult diabetes cases in 2014. Of the 422 million adults with the chronic disease, an estimated 129 ...

The more common type of diabetes in China grew by 30 percent in just seven years, according to a new survey of thousands of Shanghai residents. Skip to main content.

Long-term exposure to harmful smog particles increases the risk of diabetes, a new study in China has shown, providing evidence for a link between the country's air pollution and the disease.

China’s diabetes-related medical costs, estimated at 173.4 billion yuan ($26 billion) annually, will skyrocket in 10 to 20 years as 100 million sufferers seek treatment and care for related ...

China may have found a successful solution for treating type-1 diabetes. A 25-year-old woman with type-1 diabetes was treated by scientists in China with her own stem cells. This is the first case ...

Middle-aged people who develop diabetes could lose years off their life, according a major new study in China. Researchers found that people with the disease lost an average of nine years of life.

China now has more people with diabetes than any other country, a new report shows, making it clear that the nation's soaring economic growth is taking a toll on public health.