“Diabetes hits the Valley especially hard. The impact on the country’s entire health system could become catastrophic in the next few years,” filmmaker Michael Seringer said.
“Whether South Texas will be able to curb the diabetes boom before it overloads the system remains to be seen,” he said.
Seringer’s film, Diabetesville USA: Lessons from the Frontlines of the South Texas Diabetes Epidemic, tells the story of how diabetes kills, cripples and blinds thousands of residents of Harlingen, Brownsville, McAllen and other Valley cities, where it is estimated that more than 29 percent of the population has diabetes. Parts of the documentary were filmed in Cameron and Hidalgo counties.
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