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Diabetes Now NYC Public Enemy #2
Published: Jul 31, 2013
By Elbert Chu
Roughly one in nine New Yorkers carries a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, a rate that carries grim consequences as every 90 minutes a resident of the "city that never sleeps" dies from diabetes-related causes.
Those statistics topped a new report from the New York City Health Department's Community Health Survey that reported a record 5,695 diabetes-related deaths in 2011.
"The numbers are pretty startling," said Sanjay Gupta, MD, editor of MedPage Today's Gupta Guide. "I approach this as a journalist, as a doctor, but also as a friend of someone who has diabetes and have seen first hand and recognize how devastating it can be long term."
Gupta moderated a panel at MedPage Today's parent company, Everyday Health, to discuss the rise in type 2 diabetes with New York Health Commissioner Thomas Farley, MD, and Joel Zonszein, MD, director of the Clinical Diabetes Center at Montefiore Medical Center.
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Diabetes Now NYC Public Enemy #2
Published: Jul 31, 2013
By Elbert Chu
Roughly one in nine New Yorkers carries a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, a rate that carries grim consequences as every 90 minutes a resident of the "city that never sleeps" dies from diabetes-related causes.
Those statistics topped a new report from the New York City Health Department's Community Health Survey that reported a record 5,695 diabetes-related deaths in 2011.
"The numbers are pretty startling," said Sanjay Gupta, MD, editor of MedPage Today's Gupta Guide. "I approach this as a journalist, as a doctor, but also as a friend of someone who has diabetes and have seen first hand and recognize how devastating it can be long term."
Gupta moderated a panel at MedPage Today's parent company, Everyday Health, to discuss the rise in type 2 diabetes with New York Health Commissioner Thomas Farley, MD, and Joel Zonszein, MD, director of the Clinical Diabetes Center at Montefiore Medical Center.
Read more >>
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