PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alexander, Lori
ED  - Howard, Barbara V.
TI  - Diabetes: A Global Accounting Problem
DP  - 2007  01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 23--24
VI  - 7
IP  - 7
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/7/7/23.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/7/7/23.full
AB  - In a survey of the 50 US states in 1985, the highest rates of obesity reported were 10–14% per capita in 8 states. This number changed drastically in the last 30 years, with 4 of the 50 states reporting >25% obesity in 2003, and the vast majority of the remaining states reporting 20–24% obesity. This article gives an overview of obesity, its relationship to diabetes, and what this means to cardiologists.