CDC: New diabetes cases in USA adults are dropping

The report shows 1.4 million new cases of diabetes in 2014.

And despite the population growth, the absolute number of new cases also has fallen, dropping to 1.437 million in 2014 from a peak of 1.732 million in 2009. While a recent report showed that the overall obesity rate has continued to climb over the past decade, the child obesity rate has stabilized at roughly 17 percent.

Why the number of new cases is falling isn’t clear, the CDC’s Gregg said.

New statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) either confirmed recent optimism or invalidated jaded pessimism in the medical community with regard to diabetes.

“Initially it was a little surprising because I had become so used to seeing increases everywhere we looked”, Gregg said. However, although the rate has gone down for blacks and Hispanics, the drop was not statistically significant.

“It’s not yet time to have a parade”, Dr. David M. Nathan, director of the Diabetes Center and Clinical Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, told the Times.

Health officials say fewer cases of diabetes are being diagnosed in USA adults.

Diabetes, a disease that causes blood glucose levels to be above normal and sugar build-up in the blood, can cause serious health problems such as blindness, heart disease, kidney disease, and amputation of lower limbs. He points out that in the 80s and early 90s, the number of annual new cases was 600,000 – more than half of what it is today.

The great majority of new diabetes diagnoses come from middle age and older Americans.

However, the latest data should bode well for America’s obesity rate in the future.