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> 14.6% of the adult population, or 1,086,300 people in the UAE have diabetes, according to International Diabetes Federation > The UAE is determined to reduce incidence of the disease from 19% to 16% by 2021 > $673 billion, or 12% of the global healthcare spend is on diabetes > In 2012, an estimated 1.5m deaths were directly caused by diabetes and another 2.2 million deaths were attributable to high blood glucose > almost half of all deaths attributable to high blood glucose occur before the age of 70 > WHO projects that diabetes will be the 7th leading cause of death by 2030