Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea

It is a great honour to have been asked to write the foreword to the inaugural edition of The International Journal of cardiodiabetes. At such a time with the COVID Pandemic still raging in many parts of the world, one might reasonably ask why at this time we need to have yet another medical journal in addition to the numerous publications that already exist? However, it is precisely the mortality, morbidity, geographical spread, economic effects, social disruption and inequalities which the Pandemic has highlighted that merit an even wider view of the importance of global healthcare. Whilst COVID is a global communicable disease, diabetes mellitus is in many senses a non-communicable equivalent with an ever burgeoning significance.