16 Nov 2015
  • Pioneering new research led by University College London (UCL) for the Cities Changing Diabetes partnership shows socio-cultural factors including time pressure, commuting time and where you live play significant roles in diabetes vulnerability1
  • Findings from the world's largest-ever study of urban diabetes - in five cities which together are home to 60 million people - suggest cities must reconsider public health and city planning strategies to address the rise of the condition
  • Over 400 million people worldwide have diabetes, more than two thirds of whom live in cities2,3
  • Partnership initiator Novo Nordisk has pledged to invest over 20 million USD of expert resource and research funds in Cities Changing Diabetes by 2020
  • The findings will be presented to delegates at an international Summit in Copenhagen on Monday 16 November where it will also be announced that in 2016, Vancouver and Johannesburg will join Mexico City, Shanghai, Tianjin, Copenhagen and Houston as partner cities.

Bagsværd, Denmark, 16 November 2015 - International research led by University College London (UCL) as part of the 'Cities Changing Diabetes' partnership programme challenges current scientific understanding of the rapid rise of diabetes in cities. The findings suggest that in cities around the world, social and cultural factors play a far more important role in the spread of the epidemic than previously thought.

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