A new study done by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has shown that the case of Type 2 diabetes in the US has stabilized in recent years after increasing steadily for around two decades.

The researchers at the CDC noted in the study that the stabilization has occurred due to stabilization of obesity rates in the U.S. first seen in 2003 and 2004.
The study, however, found that though the cases of Type 2 diabetes have stabilized the metabolic disorder continues to spread among African Americans and Latinos.
The findings of the study are published in Wednesday's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"It's good news in a way, but it's not good news for everybody," said Shakira Suglia, an epidemiologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She added that many Americans have understood that better food choices and more exercise can keep diabetes at bay but "we're just not reaching certain populations."
The study was done to assess changes in the prevalence of diabetes (the rate at which the disease is present in an overall population) and its incidence (the rate at which new diagnoses are made within a given time frame).
The researchers surveyed 664,969 American adults who were asked to answer annual health surveys. The questionnaire does not distinguish between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. But Type 1 diabetes represents only about 5% of new diagnoses in adults, while cases of Type 2 diabetes have increased.
The main reasons for diabetes are obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. Diabetics are more at risk of suffering a heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, blindness or pain or numbness in the lower extremities.