Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Young or old, whatever your ethnic background, diabetes can hit anyone at any time. Now there's a new tool helping identify the disease in record time.
If the obesity trend continues, experts predict 1 in 3 American kids born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes. But that doesn't mean they'll know they have the disease. Right now, 7 million diabetics are undiagnosed in the United States.
Now a new needle-free, lightning-fast test is helping Autumn Russ understand what was happening to her.
"I started getting dizzy and I started getting really tired easily," said Autumn.
Autumn Russ recently got the news that she has diabetes. Now she's part of a study testing how a machine can assess her risk for serious diabetes complications.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health&id=8467745
If the obesity trend continues, experts predict 1 in 3 American kids born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes. But that doesn't mean they'll know they have the disease. Right now, 7 million diabetics are undiagnosed in the United States.
Now a new needle-free, lightning-fast test is helping Autumn Russ understand what was happening to her.
"I started getting dizzy and I started getting really tired easily," said Autumn.
Autumn Russ recently got the news that she has diabetes. Now she's part of a study testing how a machine can assess her risk for serious diabetes complications.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health&id=8467745