Key takeaways:

Just 55.8% of people living with diabetes globally had a diagnosis in 2023.

Only 21.2% of all people with diabetes received optimal glycemic concentrations that year.

An estimated 248 million people with diabetes globally were unaware they had the disease in 2023, according to a new report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology .

The data also indicated that many people given treatment for diabetes did not receive optimal care.

Data derived from: Stafford LK, et al. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol . 2025;doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(25)00217-7.

“By 2050, 1.3 billion people are expected to be living with diabetes , and if nearly half don’t know they have a serious and potentially deadly health condition, it could easily become a silent epidemic,” Lauryn K. Sta

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