Time for a victory lap or time to raise the levees: a perspective on complication reduction and new-onset diabetes.

摘要

The Mississippi River is a small piddling stream as it leaves Lake Itasca, Minnesota. As it meanders southward along its 2,300 mile journey, it is joined by 250 different tributaries that ultimately drain one-third of the continent. These widen the river, increase the flow, and strain the system of levees and spillways that contain the "Big Muddy." It then passes on to the Gulf of Mexico.