Andrew Stokes, PhD, demographer, assistant professor, department of global health, Boston University School of Public Health, and Samuel Preston, PhD, professor of sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, authors of the article titled, “Deaths Attributable to Diabetes in the United States: Comparison of Data Sources and Estimation Approaches,” published in PLOS One.
The American death rate from diabetes is more than triple what it was just a generation ago, according to a…
