But has their been any increase at all? We now have better methods of finding out if people have diabetes, we now have more categories of diabetes for people to snugly fit into.
Perspective is the issue when the media use stats....the government do the same, their are 3 ways of giving out the same stats, and the 1 in 10,000 is the simplest that everyone understands, the other 2 methods, one of which the Beeb used in this case try to make it look like a pandemic!