As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.
Hispanics have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act.
While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.
To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.
Nearly one-fifth of our fellow citizens are Latino. They are families who are impacted by our education system, by our economy, by our healthcare delivery, and by every policy we make here in Washington.
In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.
There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.
A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?
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