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...more scientists learn about diabetes and the complications it causes, the more they find themselves looking at the conditions that precede it. "The big question now is, When does the diabetes clock start ticking?" says Dr. Frank Vinicor, director of the diabetes program at the Centers for Disease Control. "For eye or small-vessel disease, we think the clock starts ticking when blood sugar starts to go up. But for heart disease, we think the clock may start ticking much, much earlier, even before the first sign of blood sugar going...
Sources: American Diabetes Association; CDC; Reuters; Dr. Frank Vinicor; Dr. David Nathan
...Hispanics were hit hardest of all, with a 38% increase. Whites came in next at 29%, and African Americans were last at 26%. "If that were to happen in a disease like tuberculosis, syphilis or AIDS, I think there would be a public outcry, and understandably," says Dr. Frank Vinicor, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's diabetes division and one of the authors of the study. "These trends are very disturbing...
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