World Diabetes Day: focus on the “silent pandemic”

There are 422 million people in the world living with diabetes. In Italy there are almost four million cases of type 2 diabetes, 300 thousand those of type 1, the so-called juvenile diabetes. Chronic diseases that can be lived with, but which have an important influence on the quality of life of patients. And that, at least in the case of type 2 diabetes, they are preventable by adopting a healthy lifestyle in time.