Diabetic Dames: An Epidemic Unknown

Check out Women’s eNews’ article on an epidemic that has struck millions of women in the U.S., and our ignorance of the growing danger it poses to women across the country. Presently, one in three girls born in the U.S. today will be likely to develop a form of diabetes.
Compared to men, women can develop gestational diabetes and are more likely to form complications that could damage the nerves or heart. Women of color are also twice as likely to develop the disease.
The president of health care and education for the American Diabetes Association, Cathy Tibbetts, tells it like it is. “This disease is a silent killer…Though 8.7 percent of American women have diabetes, a third of them don’t realize they are affected.”
Tibbets also says that because of Americans’ poor health habits and the fact that the disease can form without obvious signs, diabetes has become the sixth leading cause of death among women in the U.S. today.
Scary. Looks like it’s time to wake up and smell the insulin, ladies. (Does it smell? I have no clue. And I know, bad joke.)