Today is World Diabetes Day. It's a global campaign led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) with activity taking place around the world to raise awareness of how serious the disease is. This means knowing, for example that in the UK diabetes:
- kills 65 people every single day.
- causes blindness and kidney disease.
- that every week it causes:
1400 cases of heart failure
540 strokes
140 lower limb amputations
