PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Canavan, Neil ED - Hu, Frank B. TI - The Globalization of Diabetes: The Kelly West Lecture DP - 2010 Sep 01 TA - MD Conference Express PG - 14--15 VI - 10 IP - 6 4099 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/10/6/14.short 4100 - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/10/6/14.full AB - To effectively address the escalating social and economic costs of diabetes-related morbidity, the onus lies with the epidemiologist to discern the nature of the problem and what is driving this steep rise in global disease incidence.