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Research is a team of over 300 people at the forefront of discovery aimed at preventing and curing diabetes. Joslin Clinic, affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the nationwide network of Joslin Affiliated Programs, and the hundreds of Joslin educational programs offered each year for clinicians, researchers and patients enable Joslin to develop, implement and share innovations that immeasurably improve the lives of people with diabetes. As a non-profit institution, Joslin relies upon the generosity of donations to support its programs. For more information on Joslin, call 1-800-JOSLIN-1 or visit www.joslin.org.

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Sidebar: Bahrain Faces Growing Diabetes Epidemic

[Boston, December 11, 2003] -- In the midst of what the World Health Organization (WHO) calls a "global diabetes epidemic, affecting developing countries in particular," Bahrain stands out.

Diabetes already affects 25.5 percent of the Bahraini population, according to a WHO study. By comparison, just 6.2 percent of the United States population has diabetes.

Even more troubling is that 40 percent of the Bahraini population is at risk of developing the disease, WHO reports.

"That gives Bahrain one of the highest population percentages in the world," said C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Joslin President and Director, and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "That is why the opening of the Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate Bahrain is an important step in the country's fight against diabetes. We will partner with Gulf Diabetes Specialists Center to not only improve treatment, but also to prevent the many complications of the disease."

Bahrain has seen some very positive medical trends such as a decrease in infant mortality and an increase in life expectancy as a result of the socioeconomic growth that began in the 1970s, according to Farouq I. Al Zurba, M.D., and A
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Contact: Marge Dwyer
marjorie.dwyer@joslin.harvard.edu
617-732-2415
Joslin Diabetes Center
11-Dec-2003

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