New estimates published in Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening show that 316,000–345,000 have diabetes in Norway. This is the situation before World Diabetes Day, which is marked on 14 November.

These brand new analyses have been performed by a group of researchers, many of whom are affiliated with Oslo Diabetes Research Center. Based on novel data from the HUNT and Tromsø surveys, the researchers assume that 60,000 people in Norway are living with diabetes, but have not been diagnosed yet.

- It may seem that the number of people diagnosed with diabetes in Norway has approximately doubled in the last 20 years, says Lars Christian Mørch Stene, researcher at Oslo Diabetes Research Center and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

It is well known that the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents has increased somewhat over time, but it is primarily a huge increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes that explains the large increase in the total number of people with diabetes in Norway.

https://www.fhi.no/nyheter/2020/nye-tall-om-hvor-mange-som-har-diabetes-i-norge/

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How many people have diabetes in Norway?

New estimates published in Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening show that 316,000–345,000 have diabetes in Norway. This is the situation before World Diabetes Day, which is marked on 14 November.