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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.