The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the rate of Type 2 diabetes has appeared to stabilize among adults, after it steadily increased for close to two decades. From 1990 to 2008, the rate of Type 2 diabetes among adults jumped to 7.9 percent from 3.5 percent. By 2012, it had stalled at 8.3 percent. While the rate has stabilized among the general adult population, Type 2 diabetes is still increasing among blacks and Latinos, as well as among Americans ages 20 to 44 and those with a high-school education or less. The report was published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
