Fewer Cases Of Diabetes Being Diagnosed In US Adults, CDC Says.

In continuing coverage, the AP (12/2, Stobbe) reports, “Fewer cases of diabetes are being diagnosed in US adults,” data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate. In 2014, 1.4 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed, compared to 1.7 million in 2009. Diabetes expert Edward Gregg, “who has been tracking the numbers at the” CDC, said, “After so many years of seeing increases, it is surprising.” On its “All Things Considered” program and in its “Shots” blog, NPR (12/1, Shute) quotes Ann Albright, director of the CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation, who said that despite the falling number of diagnoses, “we still have a long, long way to go.” According to NPR, “the number of new cases each year is still triple what it was in 1980.” Currently, some “29 million people, nine percent of the US population, have diabetes.” http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_DIABETES_DECLINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-01-16-01-27