DIABETES

By C McF

First, the good news: Over the last few years, the number of new cases of diabetes in the United States has shown a modest decline. People with diabetes are living longer because of improvements in managing the disease. One of the key reasons that people with diabetes are living longer is that there has been a steady decline in the death rate due to cardiovascular disease. Improvements have also been seen in the tools and medications that people with diabetes can use to manage the disease.

Now, the bad news: There are still 1.4 million new cases of diabetes diagnosed every year, and even though we now have better ways to manage diabetes, the financial burden of doing so has increased.

Diabetes By The Numbers

29.1 MILLION: