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New diabetes cases continue to decline in the U.S. after decades of being on the rise. Among Latinos and African Americans, the drop has not been very significant, Univision Noticias reports.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a drop of 20% between 2008 to 2014 of people newly diagnosed with diabetes. In 2014, 1.4 million were diagnosed compared to 1.7 million in 2008.
But according to the CDC Latinos and African Americans continue to be “far more vulnerable.” In the Latino community the number of new cases “showed no consistent change among Latinos from 2009-2014.”
Despite the recent progress, experts warn the battle against diabetes is far from over. Around 29 million people in the U.S. have diabetes and 86 million are at-risk.
“It’s not like we’ve beaten the epidemic, but it’s the first good news we’ve had in several decades,” says Dr. David Nathan, a diabetes researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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