Diabetes declines across nation -- Rate of new diabetes cases in Texas is rising
After decades of relentless rise, the number of new cases of diabetes in the United States has finally started to decline.
The rate of new cases fell by about a fifth from 2008 to 2014, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the first sustained decline since the disease started to explode in this country about 25 years ago.
The drop has been gradual and for a number of years was not big enough to be statistically meaningful. But new data for 2014 released Tuesday serves as a robust confirmation that the decline is real, officials said. There were 1.4 million new cases of diabetes in 2014, down from 1.7 million in 2008.
According to CDC surveillance data, in Texas, the rate of new cases of diabetes in adults age 18 to 76 dropped from 10.5 per 1,000 in 2008 to 8.7 per 1,000 in 2010. But by 2013, the rate had crept back up to 9.8 per 1,000.
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