24 Million Americans Now Diabetic

June 26, 2008 by MedHeadlines  
Filed under Diabetes, Medical Research

New data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate a substantial rise in diabetes cases in the last two years, bringing the total cases for 2007 to be almost 24 million, or about 8% of the country’s population.  In the two years before that, the rate of diagnosis rose by about 3 million new cases. Read more

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