Fewer Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, even though obesity keeps rising

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 22:29 in Health & Medicine

The number of new diabetes cases among U.S. adults keeps falling even as obesity rates climb, and health officials aren't sure why. New federal data released Tuesday found the number of new diabetes diagnoses fell to about 1.3 million in 2017, down from 1.7 million in 2009. Earlier research had...

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