Lack of diabetes knowledge in USA

Moral of the story: go online and look it up if you don't know anything about it. It can kill you.

Source: AMA Morning Rounds 11/3/09

Useful Information:
Your Doctor!
http://www.diabetes.org/
http://diabetes.webmd.com/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diabetes.html

Survey suggests many Americans may lack basic knowledge about diabetes.

HealthDay (11/2, Gordon) reported that, according to a survey by the American Diabetes Association, "many Americans lack basic knowledge about" diabetes, a disease "responsible for more deaths each year in the" US "than breast cancer and AIDS combined." The ADA survey "included 2,081 men and women from across the" US, "285 of" whom "been diagnosed with diabetes," finding that one common myth "is that sugar and overeating cause diabetes." However, type 1 diabetes is "an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakenly attacks the islet cells in the pancreas, destroying the body's ability to produce insulin," and "genetics and other unknown factors -- not just diet -- can be contributors" to type 2 diabetes.