1 in 3 Americans at Risk for Diabetes
Many Have the Disease and Don't Know It
Know Your Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes continued...
"The important message to get out to the community is that these are the people who are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes," says Charles M. Clark Jr., MD.
Clark is a professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine and is chairman emeritus of the NIDDK’s National Diabetes Education Program.
He tells WebMD limited public health funds make both finding undiagnosed diabetes cases and taking care of people who know they have the disease a challenge.
"We only have so much to invest," he says. "We may want to spend more on screening efforts, but the reality is that we may need to spend more taking care of the people we already know about."