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Article: Most US diabetics not controlling their blood sugar
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 19, 2005
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Most US diabetics not controlling their blood sugar
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Two thirds of the 18 million
Americans with Type 2 diabetes do not have their blood sugar under
control and risk early death from the disease's complications
including stroke, heart attack and kidney failure, showed a report
released Wednesday.
A survey during 2003 and 2004 on 157,000 Type 2 diabetics in the
United States found 67 percent of the patients did not have an
adequate level of A1C, a blood sugar reading. The survey was
sponsored by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
(AACE) and the American College of Endocrinologists.
The A1C test indicates average blood sugar level over the ...