It is estimated that nearly 194 million people worldwide have diabetes. This is an increase from the 1995 global estimation of 135 million which was published in a World Health Organization study in 1998[1]. The International Diabetes Federation reconfirms that type 2 diabetes, which is the non-insulin dependent type, constitutes about 85% to 95% of all diabetes cases in developed nations and accounts for an even higher percentage in developing nations. Diabetes continues to affect increasing numbers of people around the world while public awareness remains low. Figure 1. The importance of Islet Amyloid What is type 2 diabetes? Type…
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Agnieszka Klimek has been a biologist, physiologist and now a pathologist studying Type 2 Diabetes at UBC and hoping to develop a novel predictor test for this disease. On her „off‰ time, she enjoys ultimate, cycling, good music and a good book, preferably somewhere hot, sunny and with lots of sandy white beaches!