The CDC has announced that the frequency rates or number of people in the U.S. with diabetes or prediabetes is increasing. The announcement stated that the number of Americans who currently have diabetes is now at 26 million people. Alarmingly, 79 million more Americans have prediabetes. The CDC says that prediabetes affects 35 percent of all adults in the U.S. and those persons have elevated blood sugar levels, but not yet high enough to be considered or diagnosed as full blown diabetes.
The increase is thought by the CDC to be caused by an increasing number of obesity cases and in the diagnostic criteria changes. A large majority of diabetes cases are type 2 Diabetes, and could continue to worsen over time as the body continues to lose it's sensitivity to insulin.
The CDC's 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet states that as many as 7 million Americans could have diabetes and not even know they have this dangerous blood sugar condition and disease. The diabetes rates are increasing across many ethnic groups and age categories. As the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S., diabetes medical care has a great impact upon our economic system. The CDC estimates that the costs due to this disease costs approximately $174 billion each year.
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http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.aspx?docID=649276
http://diabetes.webmd.com/news/20110126/cdc-26-million-americans-have-diabetes
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