Projected number of people with diagnosed Type 2 diabetes in Germany in 2040

Aims To project the number of people with Type 2 diabetes in Germany between 2015 and 2040. Methods Based on data from 65 million insurees of the German statutory health insurance, we projected the age‐specific prevalence of diabetes using mathematical relations between prevalence, incidence rate and mortality. We compared several scenarios regarding temporal trends in the incidence and mortality rate. The projected age‐specific prevalence was...