Hmmmmm.....I think it more like 10 million. As peope who are borderling are there. They just don't know it yet.
"7 million who haven't been diagnosed"
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NEW YORK — A 50-year-old with diabetes dies six years sooner than someone without the disease, and not just from a heart attack or a stroke, new research suggests.
The large international effort to measure diabetes' toll found the disease also raises the risk of dying prematurely from a host of other ailments, even breast cancer and pneumonia.
"It's quite a wide sweep of conditions," said Dr. John Danesh of Cambridge University in Britain, who led the team of researchers. While most people think of heart problems, diabetes surprisingly "appears to be associated with a much broader range of health implications than previously suspected."
Putting the six years lost in context, he said, long-term smoking shortens life by 10 years.
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http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20110302/US.MED.Killer.Diabetes/ (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20110302/US.MED.Killer.Diabetes/)