Biotech Values

[iwfal]

10% of adults in China are diabetic (#msg-48221898), so there’s a really big upside here for somebody.

Ok, that is astounding (given that they still have a ways to go to catch up to the purchasing power of the US and diabetes is a "lagging index".). In comparison the US has 'only' 8.3%.

But this made me look at the US data and although I knew we had a diabetes problem I was absolutely stunned at the actual numbers.

All told more than 100M in the US have either diabetes, undiagnosed diabetes or pre-diabetes. Almost 1/2 of the adult US population. And multiple studies have shown that a very high percentage of pre-diabetics progress to diabetes on the time scale of a decade. (warning: not everyone uses the same definitions of 'pre-diabetes' - but I think in general the trend is likely to be astoundingly bad).

What is especially odd about this is that no one seems to do much about it. It reminds me of friend who lived in the Appalachias. Several of her neighbors had children and young adults who considered it a rite of passage into adulthood to have all their teeth pulled. Soon we'll consider it a symbol of maturity to get T2D?