Huge Burden Of Diabetes Shown By New Survey

As the nation gets fatter, a report in Sciencedaily today states in the United States, nearly 13 percent of adults age 20 and older have diabetes, but 40 percent of them have not been diagnosed, according to epidemiologists from the national institutes of health and the centers for disease control and prevention, whose study includes newly available data from an oral glucose tolerance test. Failure to control weight is leading to hugely increasing costs for medical care and shows the failure to develop early effective prevention for obesity.