Article: Most US diabetics not controlling their blood sugar

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.

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