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12% of Americans may have Diabetes by 2050

Posted by Maria Kang on September 16th, 2006

Diabetes is widely becoming a childhood disease as much it has made it’s prevalence to many adults.

The most recent estimates suggest that Diabetes rates are expected to more than double from 2005 to 2050, from 5.6 percent to 12 percent of the population. It also caculates that in  about 44 years, over 48 million people in this country would be affected – and rates could go even higher if obesity rates continue to rise.


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    this is so scary.
    thank you.
    it motivates me to not become that stat, just like my both parents and grandparents.