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Leading experts on diabetes will be heading to Scotland this weekend for an international conference on the disease.

Held in Peebles, experts will discuss why some people develop diabetes and others do not, reports the Press and Journal.

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Professor Kevin Docherty, who organised the event, said: "There has been a huge increase in obesity in the UK and worldwide in the last ten years and this is directly linked to rising levels of diabetes and other associated risks."

The conference coincides with the release of figures which show the number of diabetes cases in the UK has been increasing.

A study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health revealed that there was a 74 per cent increase in the number of people with diabetes between 1997 and 2003.

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This entry was posted on Friday, February 27th, 2009 at 7:00 pm and is filed under Diabetes.