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The Diabetes Pandemic: Looking for the Silver Lining

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Diabetes is an American epidemic. One in three Americans born in 2000 is projected to develop diabetes.¹ Diabetes is a pandemic. In 2003, 194 million people worldwide, ranging in age from 20 to 79 years, had diabetes. By 2025, this number is projected to increase by 72% to 333 million, and nearly 80% of these cases will be in the poorer industrializing countries.²

All of this sounds frightening and devastating. But is there a silver lining to this grey and menacing diabetes cloud?

We need to look at the scientific advances—just in the past decade—in the prevention of diabetes and its complications. The rate of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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