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The big D.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-DEC-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The big D.(Minister of Health: JIM ATKINSON CURES WHAT AILS US)

Article Excerpt
"My friend's father is not going to have his foot amputated," my wife informed me one morning. [paragraph] "Oh, good," I said. [paragraph] "They have to take the entire lower leg," she quickly added, frowning. "Diabetes. I didn't know it could be so horrible." [paragraph] If this story line is not yet familiar, just wait. Diabetes--the metabolic condition in which the body does not utilize glucose efficiently because of poor production of insulin, causing havoc with the vascular and nervous systems--is quietly making a bid to join the uppermost strata of insidious diseases presently occupied by the Big One and the Big C. Over the past thirty years, incidence of the disease has doubled in the U.S.; diabetes deaths have jumped 45 percent. And Texas is a veritable hot spot: We now have more than one million people with diabetes--not to mention the additional estimated 343,000 who are still undiagnosed. What do you really know about diabetes? Here are the top five myths about our newest epidemic, explained with the help of Dr. Eugenio Cersosimo, of the Texas Diabetes Institute and the University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science...

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