The rifeness of diabetes continues to grow exponentially. Following 1997, the rifeness of diagnosed diabetes amid the adult population aged eighteen years and older has risen from five point one percent in 1997 to seven point eight percent in 2006. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, as it was responsible for three point one (seventy-four thousand eight hundred and seventy) of deaths in 2005.
To provide further statistics on Diabetes; according to statistics published by CDC, twenty point eight million, or seven percent of the population, had diabetes, with an additional fourteen point six million people said to be diagnosed