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Article: The American Diabetes Association 'Sounds the Alert' for The Nearly 6 Million Americans Who Have Diabetes but Don't Know It; 15th Annual American Diabetes Association Alert Day Held on March 25, 2003.
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- March 24, 2003
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomorrow, March 25, 2003, the American Diabetes Association will "Sound the Alert" about diabetes, a devastating disease that affects 17 million Americans and kills 210,000 people annually. Diabetes is the fifth deadliest disease in the United States, and more than a million people develop the disease each year. Diabetes cost the country $132 billion in 2002, up from $98 billion in 1997, and despite aggressive research efforts, there remains no cure in sight. Even with this high degree of visibility and vast scope, one-third of the millions affected by diabetes, or nearly 6 million people, are not aware that ...