"Lifestyle Disease", as it should properly be labeled - and includes the characteristic symptoms of diabetes - is 100% preventable and, in most cases, reversible without permanent damage.
But there are many factors at play, the exemplar being one I won't discuss here.
Regardless, it's simultaneously amusing and disgusting that 'normally intelligent' people researching such effects of disease are not able to quantify - as I do - the equivalence of kidney damage to other disorders and consequent damage (again, not elaborating).
You are spot-on about this not being news...other than to highlight the institutional ignorance of the idiots who continue to negligently govern health policy in this country.
There is no excuse for this alarming trend. None:
