The Diabetes Epidemic

Host: Lee Freedman, MD Guest: Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD The CDC has ominously projected that one in three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in his or her lifetime. Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and director of the Penn Diabetes Center, discusses the magnitude of the diabetes epidemic. What can we do to prevent the CDC’s prediction from materializing?