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More than 1-in-3 American individuals; ...has diabetes. And 26% at risk...
Topic Started: May 30 2006, 03:26 PM (226 Views)
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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle....&src=rss&rpc=22

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Maybe it's just that my brain is fried this evening (dragged my poor grade 6s through day one of three days of standardized testing today <_< ) but the stats aren't making sense to me.

As 89th reported in the subject line:

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More than one out of every three individuals in the United States have diabetes and another 26 percent have impaired fasting glucose, which increases the risk of developing diabetes, new study findings suggest.


But then the article goes on to say:

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Over 35 percent of study participants, representing 73.3 million individuals had diabetes or impaired fasting glucose in 2002, the researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care.


which includes the people with impaired fasting glucose, contradicting the first paragraph.

Then it goes on to say:

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"We were surprised by the fact that diagnosed diabetes is increasing," Cowie said. "We need to do a better job of diagnosing those one in three who don't know they have it (diabetes) and finding those with impaired fasting glucose."


Which suggest that "one in three" figure is actually the number of diabetics out of three who haven't yet been diagnosed - NOT, as the article's first paragraph suggests, that one out of three people have diabetes. The number as stated in the second to last paragraph is 6.5%:

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However, the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes rose from 5.1 percent in 1988-1994 to 6.5 percent in 1999-2002.


Or am I just suffering from a tired brain this evening?
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You're not suffering impaired brain, at least from the evidence of your reading of this article. The header, quoted by 89th, is wrong.

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Over 35 percent of study participants, representing 73.3 million individuals had diabetes or impaired fasting glucose in 2002, the researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care. A total 9.3 percent had diabetes in 1988-2002 and the prevalence of undiagnosed remained stable at 2.8 percent during this period.

However, the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes rose from 5.1 percent in 1988-1994 to 6.5 percent in 1999-2002. They also estimate that about one third of diabetics are undiagnosed.


Apparently, more than one-third had EITHER diabetes or impaired fasting glucose. And the percentage of that group with diabetes was increasing.
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Phew. Thanks, Quirt. If I had been way off base, someone would have had to use very small words to explain it to me, because I just couldn't wrap my head around how the numbers in the article made any sense. Thanks for confirming it for me!
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From the American Diabetes Association:

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There are 20.8 million children and adults in the United States, or 7% of the population, who have diabetes. While an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, unfortunately, 6.2 million people (or nearly one-third) are unaware that they have the disease.
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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I didn't quote it wrong, did I? I've done that in the past once...

I think the first sentence in their article is just wrong...right?
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You quoted them correctly, 89th, but the article was either mistaken in that first paragraph or horribly written (or both).
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Yeah, just got home from an 11-hour day at work after 4 hours of sleep... :wacko:
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No worries, 89th. It was the article's mistake.
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