Preventing the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes
by DiabetesCare.net | May 1, 2015 | Practice Management
The U.S. diabetes statistics are well known: 29.1 million people, or 9.3% of the American population has diabetes and 8.1 million are undiagnosed. The statistics for prediabetes are perhaps less well known but more significant for the future of American health and healthcare. 86 million Americans, or 1 in 3, have prediabetes but nearly 90 percent of these...
Why We Should Treat Pre-Diabetes
by DiabetesCare.net | Jul 25, 2014 | Practice Management
Pre-diabetes represents a stage of diabetes progression where people already begin to show cardiovascular damage to heart, kidneys, and other neuro-vascular systems. According to data from 2005-2008, 35% of U.S. adults aged 20 years or older have pre-diabetes which is about 79 million Americans. Pre-diabetes represents an elevation of plasma glucose above...
