CEO ALERT: CDC Study Indicates Obesity Key Factor in Increase in Diabetes Cases

["Chris Fox" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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New CDC Report Indicates Incidents of Diabetes Up 90%; Obesity Cited as Key
Factor

This morning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a
study indicating a significant rise in the prevalence of diabetes across the
country.  In fact, the study found that, among the 33 states for which the
CDC had fulsome information, the prevalence of diabetes increased 90% from
1995-1997 to 2005-2007.  Chief among reasons indicated by the study for this
rise was the increased prevalence of obesity, which was identified as a key
predictor of diabetes.

This survey, which analyzed state-specific data pulled from the Behavioral
Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), and found that incidents of
diabetes ranged from 5.0 to 12.8 cases per 1,000 people in the 40 states
analyzed in the 2005-2007 data - with the largest increases being found in
the South and Puerto Rico.  

The state with the highest rate of diabetes, the study found, was West
Virginia which had 12.8 cases of diabetes per 1,000 people and the state
with the lowest rate of diabetes was Minnesota, which had a diabetes rate of
5.0 per 1,000 people.  Among other states that ranked poorly in the study
were South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee - perhaps not
surprisingly, all of these states have some of the nation's highest rates of
obesity.