Half of Americans have diabetes or a high risk for it — and many of them are unaware [LATimes.com]
Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and … diabetes . That’s right. The metabolic condition is about as American as you can get, according to a new national report card on diabetes released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . The report shows that nearly half of Americans have diabetes or prediabetes, which puts them at high risk for the condition. A good number of these folks haven’t been diagnosed and don’t even realize their predicament. [For more of this story, written...