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Regular readers of the Journal may be surprised by this issue: if not for anything, at least for its size. In a way, it can be considered a metaphor for the burgeoning burden of diabetes in developing countries. Diabetes is rolling over as a juggernaut; research is keeping pace; and it is being documented in diabetes journals worldwide. IJDDC has been no exception in this journey. Over the past few years, the number of accepted articles has far outstripped its slim issues coming out regularly. The long wait appears to be a universal occurrence [
1]. To deal with the long list of online first manuscripts, the editorial team and the Society decided to bring them out in print. Future readers may still go online to access them, but a print journal has an obligation to print the accepted articles. Hence this tome; expect a couple more shortly, the latter covering specific themes. …