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1. 4 Steps to Manage Your Diabetes for Life PDF, 4.49 MB

   Four steps to help people with diabetes understand, monitor, and manage diabetes. Explains diabetes ABCs and ways to stay healthy and control the disease.

2. 4 Steps to Manage Your Diabetes for Life

   Four steps to help people with diabetes understand, monitor, and manage diabetes. Explains diabetes ABCs and ways to stay healthy and control the disease. ​

3. Addressing Cardiovascular Risk Factors in People with Diabetes

   Dr. Nathan D. Wong explains why it is so important to talk about heart disease with patients who have diabetes.

4. Autonomic Neuropathy

   Overview of autonomic neuropathy—damage to nerves that control your internal organs, including your heart, digestive system, bladder, eyes, and sex organs.

5. Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions: How Do Recent USPSTF Recommendations Inform Diabetes Care?

   Susan Z. Yanovski, MD, discusses how the benefits of behavioral weight management treatment can apply to the care of people with diabetes.

6. Changing the Conversation about Diabetes: The Power of Youth Voices

   Dean Schillinger, MD, discusses The Bigger Picture campaign and shares his unique approach to confronting the type 2 diabetes epidemic.

7. Choose More than 50 Ways to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

   Ways to move more, make healthy food choices, and track progress with making lifestyle changes to lower your risk for type 2 diabetes.​

8. Clinical Trials for Diabetes

   Learn about clinical trials in diabetes and explore clinical trials that are currently open and recruiting. Read about NIDDK-supported research projects.

9. Continuous Glucose Monitoring

   Learn about continuous glucose monitors (CGM) for diabetes—how they work, who can use one, and when a CGM could help to better manage the disease.

10. Coping with Diabetes

    Managing diabetes can be challenging and stressful, but it is possible. Learn about how other people living with diabetes cope with the disease.

11. Could You Have Prediabetes?

    In this episode of Healthy Moments, Dr. Griffin Rodgers, director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, explains that if you're at risk for prediabetes, you should find out, because you can take steps to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.

12. Creating Safe Spaces

    Hear Dr. Monica Peek discuss how race, culture and life experiences can prevent patients from trusting and communicating to their providers

13. Diabetes Alert Day

    Diabetes Alert Day 2020 on Tuesday, March 24, is a one-day wake-up call to inform the American public about the seriousness of diabetes, particularly when diabetes is left undiagnosed or untreated.

14. Diabetes and Foot Problems

    Diabetes can cause nerve damage and poor blood flow, which can lead to serious foot problems. Learn how to help prevent foot problems by using proper foot care.

15. Diabetes and Kidney Disease

    Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease. People living with diabetes offer tips on managing your diabetes and preventing kidney disease.

16. Diabetes Care and the Adolescent Population: Navigating the Transition of Roles and Responsibilities

    David Schwartz, PhD, discusses how providers can help facilitate the transition to adult responsibility in adolescents with diabetes.

17. Diabetes Diagnosis: A Teachable Moment for Partners

    Research Scientist Dr. Julie Schmittdiel talks about how a diagnosis of diabetes can be a teachable moment for the partner of a loved one with diabetes.

18. Diabetes Diet, Eating, & Physical Activity

    Learn what and how much to eat to take care of your diabetes. Find out how much physical activity you should do and how to add activity to your daily routine.

19. Diabetes Discoveries & Practice Blog

    Dialogue with thought leaders on emerging trends in diabetes care

20. Diabetes, Gum Disease, & Other Dental Problems

    Explains the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, complications, and treatment of diabetes-related problems in the mouth.​

21. Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Stroke

    Learn about the link between diabetes, heart disease and stroke; risk factors; symptoms; diagnosis; and warning signs—and how to prevent or slow heart disease.

22. Diabetes in America: A Go-To Resource on Diabetes and its Complications

    Catherine Cowie, Ph.D., M.P.H., provides an overview of the third edition of Diabetes in America, the go-to resource on diabetes.

23. Diabetes Medical Management Plan DOCX, 253.15 KB

    Access the form, "Diabetes Medical Management Plan (DMMP)" from "Helping the Student with Diabetes Succeed: A Guide for School Personnel.

24. Diabetes Nutrition Counseling for the Non-RD

    Melinda Maryniuk, RDN, MEd, CDE, shares insights and tips on diabetes nutrition counseling.

25. Diabetes Overview

    Overview of diabetes, including: risk factors, prevention of type 2 diabetes, insulin and other treatments, diabetes diet, eating , and physical activity.

26. Diabetes & Prediabetes Tests

    Details fasting plasma glucose (FPG), oral glucose tolerance (OGTT), A1C, and random plasma glucose (RPG) tests to screen for and diagnose diabetes and detect prediabetes.

27. Diabetes Prevention, Care, and Education in the Digital Age

    Four experts discuss the benefits, potential challenges, and limitations of using digital tools and technology in diabetes care.

28. Diabetes Risk Test

    Take the "Are You at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes?" test and learn more about your risk for getting type 2 diabetes.

29. Diabetes Statistics

    Read facts and statistics about type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, and prediabetes among adults and youth in the United States.

30. Diabetes Tests & Diagnosis

    Learn when you should get a diabetes test; which tests you may receive, such as the A1C or oral glucose tolerance test; and how to prepare for each test.

31. Diabetes Travel Tips

    Diabetes doesn't keep David from traveling. But he makes sure he plans ahead when he takes a trip. Learn about some of David's tips for traveling with diabetes.

32. Diabetic Eye Disease

    Learn about diabetes and eye disease; symptoms, warning signs, and treatments; and how you can prevent eye disease—or keep it from getting worse.

33. Diabetic Kidney Disease

    Learn about diabetic kidney disease (DKD), who is at risk, how to keep your kidneys healthy, symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and what to do if you have DKD.

34. Diabetic Neuropathy

    Discusses causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of different types of diabetic neuropathy. Diabetic neuropathy is nerve damage that is caused by diabetes.

35. Digital Tools and Diabetes Care Among Latinos

    Athena Philis-Tsimikas, MD, discusses how Project Dulce is using digital tools to address the specific needs of culturally diverse populations.

36. Engaging the Disengaged Patient: Strategies for Successful Diabetes Self-Management

    William Polonsky, PhD, CDE, encourages a change in mindset when it comes to providing diabetes care.

37. Financial Help for Diabetes Care

    Lists private health insurance, government health insurance, and other health care services for people with diabetes, plus helpful organizations or resources.​

38. Finding Diabetes Support

    Being diagnosed with diabetes can be overwhelming, but you can reach out for help. People living with diabetes share their stories about their diagnoses and support networks.

39. Finding the Right Metformin Titration Regimen

    Janet Brown-Friday discusses the challenges of taking metformin and how to work with patients to form a metformin regimen.

40. Focal Neuropathies

    Overview of focal neuropathies—conditions in which you typically have damage to single nerves, most often in your hand, head, torso, or leg.

41. Game Plan for Preventing Type 2 Diabetes

    A Toolkit for Health Care Professionals and Teams.

42. Gestational Diabetes

    Learn about gestational diabetes, including symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and management. Find out what you can do to help prevent gestational diabetes.

43. Get Free Web Content from NIDDK

    NIDDK now offers a free and easy way for you to get trusted, up-to-date content for your website.

44. Getting Ready for Your Diabetes Care Visit

    You are the person in charge of your diabetes. Being prepared for your health care visit can help you get the information you need to manage your disease.

45. Getting Your Patients' Buy-in on Medication Adherence

    Learn how to get patients with diabetes to become more medically adherent from expert Dr. Jennifer Bussell.

46. Guiding Principles for the Care of People With or at Risk for Diabetes

    NIDDK's Guiding Principles present areas of agreement in existing diabetes guidelines to help primary care providers and health care teams deliver quality care.

47. Guiding Principles for the Care of People With or at Risk for Diabetes

    Sue Kirkman, M.D., and Judith Fradkin, M.D., discuss recent updates to Guiding Principles for the Care of People With or at Risk for Diabetes.

48. Having a Plan to Manage Your Diabetes

    Dr. Rodgers points out that our Make a Plan tool can help people with diabetes manage their condition.

49. Healthy Eating at Family Gatherings and Special Events

    Learn about tips for healthy eating at family gatherings and special events.

50. Healthy Eating with Diabetes

    Learn about tips for healthy eating and weight control when living with diabetes or trying to prevent type 2 diabetes.