Diabetes poses a huge health burden in the US. In the most recent national assessment for 2015, it is estimated that diabetes affects 9.4% of the US population, with costs of diagnosed diabetes reaching $245 billion annually.1 Additionally, it is estimated that 33.9% of US adults are prediabetic and 25.2% of those aged 65 years […]
Youth-onset type 2 diabetes is increasingly common in the USA, with incidence exceeding that of type 1 diabetes among 15–19-year-old adolescents and prevalence projected to increase by 673% by 2060.1,2 This growth is particularly worrisome due to the severity of youth-onset type 2 diabetes, which is more aggressive than adult-onset type 2 diabetes and carries […]
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