Diabetes:  The Constant Shadow

Friday, July 17, 2009
Topics: Health
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All this week ideastream is presenting special coverage across all our platforms -- television, radio and web -- of this often overlooked disease. It's part of a larger series of health specials we're producing on "chronic killers,"and diabetes fits that description to a tee. It's the nation's 6th leading cause of death. If everyone who died of a diabetes-related illness was counted, it would come in third -- just behind heart disease and cancer. ideastream health reporter Gretchen Cuda talks with Eric Wellman about the series, and the disease.

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This feature is part of the series Diabetes: The Constant Shadow.