Half of Americans have diabetes or a high risk for it — and many of them are unaware [LATimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/20/174:00 AM

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and … diabetes.

That’s right. The metabolic condition is about as American as you can get, according to a new national report card on diabetes released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The report shows that nearly half of Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, which puts them at high risk for the condition. A good number of these folks haven’t been diagnosed and don’t even realize their predicament.

[For more of this story, written by Karen Kaplan, go to http://www.latimes.com/science...70718-htmlstory.html]

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