Diabetes Linked to Millions Of Deaths Worldwide…
Posted on June 25, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
There are three million more diabetics in The United States in the last two years. It’s now estimated there are 24 million American diabetics – that’s the 8% of the population.
The vast majority of these are Type 2 diabetics.
Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, but that does not count how it contributes to more common causes of death, such as those linked to cardiovascular disease.
Diabetes now affects nearly 24 million people in the United States, an increase of more than 3 million in approximately two years, according to new 2007 prevalence data estimates released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This means that nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes.
In addition to the 24 million with diabetes, another 57 million people are estimated to have pre-diabetes, a condition that puts people at increased risk for diabetes. Among people with diabetes, those who do not know they have the disease decreased from 30 percent to 25 percent over a two-year period.
Have You Read the Diabetes Report?
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