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Diabetes prevalence increases with age, so the aging baby boomer population is attributing to rising costs.
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According to the CDC, between 1995 and 2010 the age-adjusted prevalence of diabetes in U.S. adults increased from 4.4% to 8.2%, and prevalence is projected to continue to increase in the future.
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Nowhere is the transformation more noticeable than in the prevalence of diabetes, closely linked to over-eating and obesity.
ECONOMIST: Fat Mexico
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Doctors worry that the steady progress from an intense public-health campaign beginning in the 1960s is in jeopardy thanks to the obesity epidemic and rising prevalence of diabetes.
WSJ: The Guide to Beating a Heart Attack
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By facilitating reliable science to inform dietary guidelines, NuSI seeks, by the year 2025, to see a reduction in the prevalence of obesity in the United States from 35 percent to 15 percent and a reduction in the prevalence of diabetes from 8 percent to 2 percent.
FORBES: A Manhattan Project To End The Obesity Epidemic
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After the five years, researchers found that patients with ED tended to be older and had a higher prevalence of hypertension, stroke, diabetes and lower urinary tract surgery than those without ED.
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Certain metabolic and kidney diseases, including diabetes, are known to cause abnormally low testosterone, Shabsigh says, adding the prevalence of those disorders rises with age.
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