New Survey Results Show Burden of Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic disease that disproportionately affects South Asians.  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a national study that showed 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 NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose study includes newly available data from an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT).  Diabetes is especially common in the elderly: nearly one-third of those age 65 and older have the disease.  An additional 30 percent of adults have pre-diabetes, a condition marked by elevated blood sugar that is not yet in the diabetic range. 

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