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Emerging field of diabetology could address growing crisis in health care

August 21, 2018

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The emerging field of diabetology–a sub-specialty of endocrinology focused on the treatment of people with diabetes–is intended to address an emerging crisis in health care: Nearly one-third of Americans has a type 2 diabetes diagnosis or has prediabetes.

Compounding this problem, numbers of endocrinologists, the physicians who specialize in treating diabetes, are dwindling as the older generation retires with fewer new physicians filling the ranks. This means the burden of care has fallen on primary care physicians, who treat 82 percent of diabetic patients.

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