• More than 98,000 Mexicans die each year because of diabetes.
  • From 2000 to 2015, more than one million 100 thousand people died in Mexico for this cause, a figure similar to the number of deaths during the Mexican Revolution.
  • 73 percent of adults and 35 percent of children and adolescents are overweight or obese, which is a risk factor for developing diabetes.

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