Childhood diabetes is on the rise across the world

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Chinese researchers have looked at data from close to 1.5 million kids over just-shy of 30 years and say that there has been a 39.4% increase in the amount of children with diabetes, globally. By 2019, there were 227,580 kids with diabetes (recorded) across the world, which the team say resulted in 5390 deaths. They add that the largest increase in cases happened in in lower sociodemograpic indexed regions - areas in with lower economy, education, and fertility rates.