40 Percent of Americans Will Develop Diabetes, CDC Projects [Consumer.Healthday.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/14/1412:00 PM

Approximately two out of every five Americans will develop type 2 diabetes at some point during their adult lives, according to new U.S. government estimates.

The ongoing diabetes and obesity epidemics have combined with ever-increasing human lifespans to increase lifetime risk of type 2 diabetes to about 40 percent for both men and women, said lead study author Edward Gregg, chief of the epidemiology and statistics branch in the division of diabetes translation at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

[For more of this story, written by Dennis Thompson, go to http://consumer.healthday.com/...ts-study-690712.html]

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