CDC report continues to point to diabetes rise

CDC report continues to point to diabetes rise
CDC report continues to point to diabetes rise

CDC report continues to point to diabetes rise

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released some grim news on diabetes. The federal agency says one in 11 people now have the disease. But what’s even more challenging for health care providers is that about one quarter of those people don’t even know they have diabetes. We check in with Cindy Bohac, Certified Diabetes Educator Edward Hospital’s Edward Diabetes Center, who tells us what Illinois is doing to curb the disease. Photo: Flickrstevendepolo