Abstract

The global epidemiology of type 2 diabetes over time regarding the biologic, cultural, demographic, therapeutic regimen and lifestyle changes are factors which have been described with particular focus on the aetiology, complications, natural history and risks pertaining to the disorder. Expansive data depict that type 2 diabetes incidence and prevalence increase rapidly to the detriment of pecuniary measures in health services and society. Recent decades have been encumbered with tumultuous and contentious polemics marked with conflicts in research findings and budget cuts in the awareness, prevention, treatment and control of the constraints and challenges regarding diabetes and related conditions, especially in LIMCs. Our health systems are faced with adverse policy expansiveness to unavoidable or threatened accelerating global needs in health and development as well as a realizable paradigm of performing more with less. Strategies in the prevention, treatment and control of type 2 diabetes and diabetes-related conditions aim to mitigate the risk of the development of diabetes and its complications.