Diabetes Affects 960,000 People in Portugal
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Portugal registered 70,399 new diagnoses of diabetes in primary health care during 2025. The data are contained in Report 2026 of the National Diabetes Program, released by the Directorate General of Health (DGS), which now counts 96,064 people with the disease identified in the National Health Service (SNS), advances the agency Lusa. The number represents 8.9% [...]
More than 70,000 people were diagnosed with diabetes last year. The country now has almost a million patients, the highest number in the last five years. The rate of growth has decreased, but experts continue to speak of an authentic "epidemia".
The number of people with diabetes identified in the NSS is close to one million, but the Health Directorate warns that the real size of the disease may be much higher. About one third of the people evaluated present an increased risk of developing diabetes in the next ten years.
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