Saturday, February 18, 2012

[WATCH]: Latino Diabetes Awareness (En Español)

In any Latino neighborhood across the nation it would be almost impossible to find a family that has not been personally affected by diabetes, despite the wide diversity of these communities and the number of countries of origin they represent. More than three million Hispanic adults have been diagnosed with diabetes nationwide and an additional two million are estimated to be living with undiagnosed diabetes. Another twelve million Hispanic Americans have pre-diabetes, a condition in which the blood sugar level is higher than normal but not yet in the range for diabetes. New York City, where the prevalence of diabetes has more than doubled over the past 10 years, represents ground zero of the Latino diabetes crisis. More than

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