NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- An epidemic of Type 2 diabetes continues to plague the United States, leading to calls for reassessing how the disease is diagnosed and treated, experts told UPI.
As many as 1 in 10 people nationally meet the criteria for Type 2 diabetes, with levels of hemoglobin A1C in the blood above 6.5%, according to the American Diabetes Association.
In addition, nearly 100 million adults in the country have what's called prediabetes, or hemoglobin A1C blood levels between 5.7% and 6.4%, meaning they're at high risk for Type 2 diabetes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
Historically, a diagnosis of prediabetes was intended to serve as a warning from physicians to patients that they were at risk for Type 2 diabetes and related health problems, such as heart disease.
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