ABSTRACT
Diabetes affects about 200 million people worldwide. These numbers have increased exponentially over the past few decades and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.1 In the UK alone, about two million people have the disorder, and again numbers are expected to increase by a further million over the next decade. Although there has been a rise in numbers of people with type 1 diabetes, the greatest number, probably 95% of all cases worldwide, has type 2 diabetes.
