Diabetes Increasingly Common in Older Adults

Kudso fatsos.

"Diabetes incidence increased 23% among older adults over a decade and prevalence jumped 62%, researchers here found...

The findings of the case-control study of Medicare patients emphasize the overwhelming and rapidly growing medical and financial burden of diabetes, they wrote...

If primary prevention programs are not implemented effectively, he said, the increase could overwhelm the health system with too many patients to treat individually and not enough money to pay for it."

It will only get worse.

Protect yourself.