Simply Diabetes » stroke http://www.simply-diabetes.com Resources, news and tips for living with and managing diabetes Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:17:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 24 Million Have Diabetes http://www.simply-diabetes.com/articles/24-million-have-diabetes/ http://www.simply-diabetes.com/articles/24-million-have-diabetes/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:32:26 +0000 diabetes http://www.simply-diabetes.com//?p=1 Recent figures have shown that about 24 million people in the US have diabetes. This includes about 6 million people who don’t even know they have diabetes. In addition, about 57 million people have what is known as prediabetes according to the latest figures released by the Center for Disease Control. About 3 million new cases of diabetes have been diagnosed in the past 2 years.

These figures are important because there are lots of things you can do in terms of prevention. Diabetes is the 7th leading cause of death in the US and is also associated with other serious diseases like heart disease and stroke. The rise in the numbers of overweight and obese people as well as an aging population are closely linked with this increase in diabetes.

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