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Published: November 26, 2008
Oklahoma combats diabetes epidemic
BY MATTHEW T. DRAELOS, M.D.
The word "epidemic” often conjures images of the black plague in Europe or ravaged populations in Third World nations stricken by strange and exotic afflictions. However, it’s a term health care professionals in Oklahoma and across this nation are increasingly applying to diabetes.

The numbers related to diabetes are disturbing — 23.6 million children and adults in this country have diabetes ...

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