Tackling structural racism is crucial to ending global diabetes crisis, researchers say

The number of people living with diabetes around the world could more than double in the next 30 years, increasing from 529 million in 2021 to over 1.3 billion by 2050, researchers have estimated.¹

In a series of three articles, published in the Lancet and Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, they warned that structural racism and geographic inequity in low and middle income countries are causing rates of diabetes, illness, and death to skyrocket.

In the US, diabetes rates are 1.5 times higher among non-white ethnic groups compared with their white counterparts, while rates in low …