"Tsunami" Diabetes: In Focus of Experts from Northern Europe and Arab Countries
The life style disease
Diabetes mellitus has become a dramatic global challenge, not at least due to increased living standards worldwide. About a quarter of the Arab and 7 percent of the German adult population is affected. Diabetes experts from the Baltic Sea Region and the United Arab Emirates meet at the 2
nd Baltic Sea Region Health Meeting “Diabetes mellitus – Global Challenge and Innovative Solutions” in Rostock to present and discuss latest developments and examples of best practice to develop joint strategies to combat the disease. The international conference is held in parallel to the 8
th National Conference for Health Economics, July 4
th to 5
th , 2012, in Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany (see PROGRAM).
