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Diabetes Care Still Lagging in U.S.
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 Diabetes is the No. 1 cause of blindness, kidney failure, amputations and nerve disease in America, Rizza said. "But again, we treat those things rather than put in place the systems of health care to be sure that patients don't get these complications," he said. "We haven't figured it out yet."
Society also needs to focus more on preventing type 2 diabetes and its complications, Rizza said. "There needs to be positive incentives to patients and the health-care system to do a better job in preventing the disease and, once you have the disease, preventing its complications."
Rizza strongly recommended improving fitness as a way of staving off type 2 disease. "If you stay lean and fit throughout your life, you have a 95 percent chance of never getting [type 2] diabetes," he said. "It's almost entirely preventable."
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For more on keeping diabetes at bay, head to the American Diabetes Association (www.diabetes.org ).
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SOURCES: K. M. Venkat Narayan, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., chief, Diabetes Epidemiology & Statistics Branch, Division of Diabetes Translation, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Robert Rizza, M.D., professor, medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and president, American Diabetes Association, Alexandria, Va.; April 4, 2006, Annals of Internal Medicine
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