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Older blacks and Latinos still lag whites in controlling diabetes

Despite decades of advances in diabetes care, African-Americans and Latinos are still far less likely than whites to have their blood sugar under control, even with the help of medications, a new national study finds. That puts them at a much higher risk of blindness, heart attack, kidney failure and other long-term diabetes complications. But the study also suggests opportunities to decrease the disparities.

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