• 9 years ago
Alain Lehmann, type 1 diabetes patient: “It’s a pernicious disease that can become perverse, because you never expect it to come.”

Seppo Kopsala, industrial engineer & CEO, Optomed Oy: “Diabetes is the disease causing more costs for society than any other disease in the world. The complications of diabetes are very bad.”

Martin Ridderstrale, endocrinologist, Steno Diabetes Center: “... stroke, blindness, myocardial infarction, impotence, kidney failure, heart failure, foot wounds and amputations…”

Michel Pinget, endocrinologist, CHU Strasbourg: “The number of cases has been multiplied by thirty in the last five years.”

Séverine Sigrist, scientific director, CeeD-European Center for the Study of Diabetes/BIOSID project coordinator: “Diabetes is the only non-contagious disease for which we use the term ‘epidemy’.”

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Julián López Gómez, euronews: “Diabetes is one of the main public enemies in Europe. According to some studies, this elusive disease affect

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