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<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/diabetes-battle-being-lost-cases-hit-record-382-230425149--finance.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/zjA10RLGwl62p1IdR.mxkA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-11-13T230657Z_2_CBRE9AC1S3Y00_RTROPTP_2_BULGARIA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Patient takes a blood glucose test during event aimed to help people with diabetes to cope with their illness at Saint Luka diagnostics medical center in Sofia" align="left" title="Patient takes a blood glucose test during event aimed to help people with diabetes to cope with their illness at Saint Luka diagnostics medical center in Sofia" border="0" /></a>By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - The world is losing the battle against diabetes as the number of people estimated to be living with the disease soars to a new record of 382 million this year, medical experts said on Thursday. The vast majority have type 2 diabetes - the kind linked to obesity and lack of exercise - and the epidemic is spreading as more people in the developing world adopt Western, urban lifestyles. The latest estimate from the International Diabetes Federation is equivalent to a global prevalence rate of 8.4 percent of the adult population and compares to 371 million cases in 2012. &quot;The battle to protect people from diabetes and its disabling, life-threatening complications is being lost,&quot; the federation said in the sixth edition of its Diabetes Atlas, noting that deaths from the disease were now running at 5.1 million a year or one every six seconds.</p><br clear="all"/>