Diabetes Alert Day is March 26. Are you at risk?

Diabetes Alert Day is March 26. Are you at risk?

Diabetes Alert Day is March 26. Are you at risk?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 03/26/2013 07:27 AM EDT Diabetes Alert Day—March 26, 2013
Know Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Take action now towards prevention

March 26 is Diabetes Alert Day, which is dedicated to raising awareness about type 2 diabetes, its risk factors, and its prevention. Type 2 diabetes, which may be prevented through lifestyle changes such as losing weight and increasing physical activity, accounts for 90% to 95% of all diabetes cases in the United States (1). Learn more about what you can do to prevent type 2 diabetes for yourself and for your family, colleagues, patients and community.

Helpful resources:

• Just published: Read the latest MMWR on the Awareness of Prediabetes in the United States- 2005-2010.
• The Prediabetes Risk Test helps you determine your risk for developing type 2 diabetes after answering a few simple questions about weight, age, family history, and other risk factors. Take the quiz and share with others. If you are at risk, talk to your health care provider about type 2 diabetes.
• The CDC-led National Diabetes Prevention Program is working with partners in communities across the United States to establish effective lifestyle change programs for people at high risk for type 2 diabetes. To find a lifestyle change program in your community, click here.
• The Just One Step tool, created by the National Diabetes Education Program, a joint program of the CDC and the National Institutes of Health, provides helpful tips in making lifestyle changes.
• CDC’s Diabetes Interactive Atlases provides data and trends of diagnosed diabetes (both prevalence and incidence), obesity, and leisure-time physical inactivity in the United States. Find out what is happening in your community.

More information about diabetes control and prevention is available at www.cdc.gov/diabetes.

(1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National diabetes fact sheet: national estimates and general information on diabetes and prediabetes in the United States, 2011. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2011.