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Tom Hanks performed an important role in raising awareness that any "regular guy" can develop type 2 diabetes when he went public with his diagnosis this week during several media interviews to promote his new movie, endocrinologists say.
Among the celebrity's appearances were a slot on CBS's The Late Show with David Letterman in the United States, where he first revealed the diagnosis, and an interview with the BBC in London.
"With Tom Hanks?you see someone who's not particularly overweight, who doesn't appear to lead an unhealthy lifestyle, and I think it's a very important message that anybody can develop diabetes, [and] that we remove the social stigma associated with it," Robert E. Ratner, MD, chief scientific and medical officer of the American Diabetes Association, told Medscape Medical News.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/812463
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Among the celebrity's appearances were a slot on CBS's The Late Show with David Letterman in the United States, where he first revealed the diagnosis, and an interview with the BBC in London.
"With Tom Hanks?you see someone who's not particularly overweight, who doesn't appear to lead an unhealthy lifestyle, and I think it's a very important message that anybody can develop diabetes, [and] that we remove the social stigma associated with it," Robert E. Ratner, MD, chief scientific and medical officer of the American Diabetes Association, told Medscape Medical News.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/812463
(free registration)