Diabetes and Its Awful Toll Quietly Emerge as a Crisis - New York Times

Diabetes and Its Awful Toll Quietly Emerge as a Crisis - New York Times: "An estimated 800,000 adult New Yorkers - more than one in every eight - now have diabetes, and city health officials describe the problem as a bona fide epidemic. Diabetes is the only major disease in the city that is growing, both in the number of new cases and the number of people it kills. And it is growing quickly, even as other scourges like heart disease and cancers are stable or in decline."