. >> hinojosa: you are the director of the latino diabetes initiative at joslin diabetes center in boston. essentially, you have dedicated your entire life to the issue of diabetes. and there are probably a lot of people who say, "oh, i know that there's diabetes; i know somebody who has diabetes; i know that in some people it can be really dangerous, in other people, they can manage it." so i'm a little confused. so what is the headline? what do we need to know about diabetes that is central to the issue? >> well, the first thing, maria, is that diabetes is a major health care problem around the world. this is not just in this country, it is everywhere. >> hinojosa: but it's not something that you see, right? isn't that one of the problems? i mean, you can be living with diabetes and be fine. >> mm-hmm. actually, it is estimated that perhaps, for type 2 diabetes, which is the most common type of the disease-- ten times more frequent than type 1 diabetes, for instance-- people only have the disease for ten or 15 years without knowing that they have the condition until they manifest the fi