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In France: More than 2.5 million people (nearly 4% of the population) have diabetes reported in 2008, with an increase in prevalence from 2.7 to 3.6% from 2000 to 2005 (average annual increase of 5 , 7%). The age and geographical disparities are high: The disease is diagnosed at an average age of 64.8 years. The “75 years and over” are the most affected (13.4%) just before the 65-74 age group (13.3%). A fifth of the population over age 75 has diabetes. The overseas regions are most affected with 7.8% of Reunion, Guadeloupe 7.3% 6.8% of Martinique. In metropolitan France, diabetics are more numerous in North-East quarter of the country and particularly in Seine-Saint-Denis (5.1% of the population), the West is less affected.

Egyptian doctors had already discovered that this disease at the time of Amenhotep III from the fifteenth century and the sixteenth century BC (the date varies according to Egyptologists. The disease is described in Section vases of water body, in the Papyrus Ebers preserved in Leipzig, written during the reign of Amenhoptep or III (Amenhotep III in Greek) where all sources of Egyptian medicine . The Greek physicians of the school of Hippocrates of Cos, who gave his name to the disease (dia Baino, Greek: ??? ???ïvo or ?????ï??), then observed about the third century BC. AD or second century BC. BC (depending on sources) “that the patients were struck with a constant thirst, and they seemed to urinate immediately what they had been drinking, as if they were” crossed by the water “without able to retain. “It Praxagora Cos av.J.C. 384-322 disciple of Hippocrates, who spoke for the first time the harmfulness of sugary difluens. In some cases the urine had no taste (diabetes insipidus) in others were sweet urine (diabetes mellitus or hyperglycemia)  In the seventh century AD. BC, the Chinese shared their observations and their interpretation concerning the urine sweet and proposed treatment close to modern methods that recommend people with diabetes to refrain from consuming alcohol and starch