The government organization recently posted 2014 data on annual new diabetes diagnoses in the US. Last year, there were 1.4 million new cases of diagnosed diabetes in adults (18-79 years), marking the fifth straight year of decline from a peak in 2009 at 1.7 million. While this decline has been happening over five years, 2014 is the first time that the trend can be considered “statistically significant” – in other words, it’s unlikely to be due to chance.