Diabetes Alert
You may not have known this, but today is the nineteenth annual Diabetes Alert Day. I wouldn’t have known that if I didn’t work for a company that deals with diabetes, and just received an email to that effect. I think raising awareness about diabetes is important, and that has nothing to do with where I work. Diabetes can be very serious if left undiagnosed or untreated, and the number of Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes is somewhere around sixty million. The risk factors for diabetes type 2 can include: having high blood pressure (at or above 130/80), having a family history of diabetes, and having diabetes during pregnancy or having a baby weighing more than nine pounds at birth.
I personally have a family history of diabetes, and even though I participated in the Diabetes Walk last year to help raise money for diabetes research, I don’t do enough to lower my own risk of developing the disease in the future. The ADA has a diabetes risk test for anyone who wants to assess their own potential risk. Awareness is the first step, so pass it on!
March 30th, 2007 at 7:55 am
My first son was 9.2 pounds…i was gestational 17 years ago…and got Type 2 about 1 1/2 years ago
January 11th, 2010 at 7:52 am
It’s important to let other peoples to be aware of diabetes as the disease keep on growing over the years.
Diabetes among people 20 years or older:
-Age 20 years or older: 23.5 million or 10.7% of all people age 20 years or older have diabetes.
-Age 60 years or older: 12.2 million or 23.1% of all people age 60 years or older have diabetes.
-Men: 12.0 million or 11.2% of all men age 20 or older have diabetes.
-Women: 11.5 million or 10.2% of all women age 20 or older have diabetes.
-New cases diagnosed per year: 1.6 million people in the United States aged 20 years or older are diagnosed with diabetes every year.