According to a recent study, diabetes prevalence has increased significantly in recent years, more than half of USA adults suffering from the condition or being at risk of acquiring it.

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Altogether, that means that in 2011-2012, 49% to 52% of the entire US population is estimated to have diabetes or pre-diabetes.

Most of these people have Type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes, which happens when the body can’t properly use or make enough of the hormone insulin to convert blood sugar into energy.

In addition, 38 percent of adults fell into the pre-diabetes category, which is used to measure the number of people who had A1c hemoglobin levels between 5.7 and 6.4 percent, Reuters pointed out. “The results show that exercise can begin to reverse some of the early cardiac changes that are commonly found in people with type 2 diabetes”, said lead researchers professor Michael Trenell and Dr Sophie Cassidy from Newcastle University.

What surprised researchers was their finding that about 21 per cent of Asian Americans have diabetes, a prevalence comparable to that in blacks and Hispanics.

“Getting more physically active is, quite literally, at the heart of good diabetes control”.

Doctors admit that the numbers are alarming, but they hope that by introducing a healthier lifestyle to people at younger ages it can have a positive effect on the number of potential Type 2 diabetes patients. Of the slightly more than 14 percent of adults with type 2 diabetes, nine percent had been diagnosed with the condition and just over five percent remained undiagnosed.

“Then to also find that about 50 per cent of diabetes is undiagnosed in Asian Americans – it was those two statistics that are scary”, Cowie said.

Additionally, undiagnosed diabetes rates could also drop if people receive the proper training and an unhindered access to screening, the team said.

And most importantly, many of these cases-both for diabetes and prediabetes-go undiagnosed.

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Now it appears that the stabilization in the rate of obesity in the United States that has occurred since 2000 may be associated with a leveling off in the prevalence of diabetes, beginning in about 2010, he said. “Progress has been made, but expanded and sustained efforts will be required” for that success to be sustained, Herman and Rothberg wrote.