Diabetes Rates Slowing - This seems to be a day filled with good news. One to be celebrated is that the diabetes rates in USA seem to be slowing down, according to The Journal of the American Medical Association (JMLA).

Diabetes rates are slowing down, slowly but surely, as USA Today has noted. The signs appear to be changing, but the process is a long one.

According to the report and USA Today, "8.3% of adults have been diagnosed with diabetes as of 2012. But the rates at which new cases are accumulating and overall counts are climbing have slowed in recent years."

This is encouraging news and like the study's co-author Ann Albright has said, "it gives us hope." It most certainly does.

The study analyzed data from 1980-2012, and the quantity of adults that entered into the figures is of 664,969 aged from 20 to 79 years old, from the National Health Interview Survey.

In the JMLA Conclusions and Relevance section, it has been posted: "Analyses of nationally representative data from 1980 to 2012 suggest a doubling of the incidence and prevalence of diabetes during 1990-2008, and a plateauing between 2008 and 2012."

So, the "epidemic," as USA Today put it, developed up to 2008 and then it started decreasing significantly.

One important detail that the study has revealed as well about the diabetes rates is that they tend to increase among the subgroups, or so has been seen in the trend of the study conducted.

Another important detail that USA Today has shared is that diabetes is the nation's seventh-leading cause of death and it highs the stakes for blindness, heart-attacks, limb amputation and kidney disease.

Diabetes is a harmful disease and the fact that the rates seem to be decreasing shows that with time, health could get better among the population and also, most importantly, that the population is becoming aware.