In the News: Program aims to prevent diabetes epidemic
WASHINGTON — Startling statistics recently released by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project that 1 in 3 U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050. What is already a serious condition, affecting 1 in 10 Americans, could become an epidemic over the next 40 years.
“The message we really want people to understand is that this is an urgent public health problem, we can’t possibly sustain 1 in 3 people having diabetes, it would just be a catastrophe, and so it’s incredibly important that we have people very seriously come together around the issue of diabetes prevention,” said Ann Albright, director of the CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation.
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