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Trusted
Web Sites for Diabetes
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From the American Diabetes Association
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There is a lot you
can do yourself to know your risks for pre-diabetes
and to take action to prevent diabetes if you have, or are at risk for,
pre-diabetes.
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- From the Centers for
Disease Control
This simple tool can help you determine
your risk for having diabetes or pre-diabetes.For each question provide
one answer which best describes you.
- Diabetes Prevention
Program Study
http://www.bsc.gwu.edu/dpp/index.htmlvdoc
This web site
contains study documents
available to the public who are interested in the research
aspects of the Diabetes
Prevention Program (DPP).
- Genetics Home Reference from the National Library of
Medicine
http://www.ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
Genetics
Home Reference provides consumer-friendly information about the effects
of genetic variations on human health.
- Glycemic index
http://www.glycemicindex.com/
The
Official Website of the Glycemic Index and GI Database.
- From
Harvard School of Public Health
- From the National Institutes of Health
The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) was
a major multicenter clinical
research study aimed at discovering whether modest
weight loss through dietary changes and increased physical activity or
treatment with the oral diabetes drug metformin (Glucophage)
could prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes in study
participants.
Metabolic syndrome is the name for a group
of risk factors linked to overweight
and obesity that increase your
chance for heart disease and other health problems such as diabetes and
stroke.
The "Small Steps. Big Rewards. Prevent
type 2 Diabetes." campaign, the
first-ever national diabetes prevention campaign, spreads this
important message of hope to the millions of Americans with
pre-diabetes.
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