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| More than 1-in-3 American individuals; ...has diabetes. And 26% at risk... | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 30 2006, 03:26 PM (226 Views) | |
| The 89th Key | May 30 2006, 03:26 PM Post #1 |
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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle....&src=rss&rpc=22
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| apple | May 30 2006, 03:29 PM Post #2 |
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one of the angels
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tax sugar |
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| George K | May 30 2006, 03:34 PM Post #3 |
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Finally
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One Word: Obesity |
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| dolmansaxlil | May 30 2006, 03:35 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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:
But then the article goes on to say:
which includes the people with impaired fasting glucose, contradicting the first paragraph. Then it goes on to say:
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%:
Or am I just suffering from a tired brain this evening? |
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| QuirtEvans | May 30 2006, 04:09 PM Post #5 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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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.
Apparently, more than one-third had EITHER diabetes or impaired fasting glucose. And the percentage of that group with diabetes was increasing. |
| 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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| dolmansaxlil | May 30 2006, 04:12 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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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| QuirtEvans | May 30 2006, 04:12 PM Post #7 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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From the American Diabetes Association:
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| 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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| The 89th Key | May 30 2006, 04:36 PM Post #8 |
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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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| dolmansaxlil | May 30 2006, 04:38 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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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| The 89th Key | May 30 2006, 04:41 PM Post #10 |
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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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| dolmansaxlil | May 30 2006, 04:42 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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No worries, 89th. It was the article's mistake. |
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