Letter to Editor in response to the article "Rising mortality rates linked to type-2 diabetes and obesity in the United States: An observational analysis from 1999 to 2022".

J Diabetes Investig · 2025 · PMC11871385 · PMID 39846500

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While I understand that the Annual Percentage Change (APC) analysis may have detected a statistical trend starting in 2017, the steep increase is more visually apparent only after 2019, as shown in figure 1.

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