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Diabetic Clarity

However, having diabetes does shorten one’s lifespan. During this
period, researchers noted there was 46 percent of men, and 44
percent of women died from diabetic complication.

This is mainly because of the rise of diabetes itself and fewer cases of
diabetes being diagnosed and untreated.

Despite the whole diabetes picture looking grim, the truth is that the
individual diabetic is actually seeing improvements.

Both men and women who are diabetic are likely to live two years
more than in times’ past – perhaps the result is from better treatment
options and plans.

Diabetes On Race and Gender

Overall, Americans have a grim 40 percent of being diagnosed with
diabetes, but for Hispanics and blacks, the percentages are even
worse.

• For whites – 37 percent of white boys and 34 percent of white
girls will develop diabetes.
• For blacks – 44.7 percent of black men and 55.3 percent of
black women will develop the disease.
• For Hispanics – 51.8 percent of Hispanic males and 51.5
percent of Hispanic women will develop diabetes.

If anything, this strengthens the argument that diabetes has a genetic
role in who does and does not develop the disease. This means your
genes can predispose you to the disease.

Still, the majority of medical researchers agree that lifestyle plays a
huge role in its development.

Researchers looked at race because they had the information
available, but they agree that socio-economic status is just as
important as race – maybe even more so.

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