Ten years from now, more than half of the U.S. population could have diabetes or prediabetes, according to a newly released analysis by UnitedHealth Group’s Center for Reform & Modernization.
The predictions are based on the current trends of increasing diabetes diagnoses in the U.S., where some 27 million people suffer from the disease. It is one of the fastest growing medical conditions in the nation and coincides with the ongoing obesity epidemic.
