About 1.5 million Americans are newly diagnosed with diabetes every year. In 2015, over 30 million Americans had diabetes, with almost a third (10 million) not even aware they had the disease. In the same year, about a quarter of a million deaths in the US were attributed to diabetes, with this disease being considered the seventh leading cause of death in the nation. For reference, heart disease is the leading cause of death and Alzheimer’s is the 6th leading cause.
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