Page 19 - Delaware Medical Journal - January 2016
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CASE REVIEW
Half of American adults have either diabetes or prediabetes!
However, progression from pre-diabetes to Type 2 diabetes is not inevitable!
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that 12 to 14 percent of U.S. adults had diagnosed diabetes in 2012, the majority of which had type 2 diabetes, and nearly 40 percent have pre-diabetes. Efforts to increase the availability of diabetes prevention programs and promote their use appear to be helping to identify at-risk individuals and provide the infrastructure to support individual behavioral change to reverse the twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes.
The Medical Society of Delaware, through a grant from the Delaware Division of Public Health has created a free
care physicians and specialists, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals are strongly encouraged to
FREE ON-LINE EDUCATION FOR DELAWARE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
“Pre-Diabetes in Children, Teens, and Adults”: A diagnosis of pre-diabetes can be an incentive to improve
ACCESS THE ONLINE EDUCATION AT: http://doiop.com/pre-diabetes
