Re: Number of Americans With Diabetes Rises to Nearly 26 Million

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:35:57 -0800 (PST), Kurt
<kurtwheeling1965@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.diabetes.org/news-research/news/diabetes-in-the-news/number-of-americans-with.html

(excerpt)

Nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes and an estimated 79 million
U.S. adults have prediabetes? according to new estimates from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

How much, if any, of that results from lowering threshholds for
diagnosis?
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